Job Details

Software Data Engineer

San Diego, California, United States

Software and Services

Summary

Posted: Jun 04, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200607771

Our team is growing! Here is your opportunity to come and join an exciting engineering team responsible for building next-generation health sensors and features. The Core Motion team is looking for hardworking and passionate engineers with expertise in data pipelines to support health study engineering. This is an integral role where you will help design, develop, and support high quality, scalable data platforms and applications that enable health sensors and health features for Apple hardware.

Description

As a Data Engineer in this central role you will:
Facilitate the engineering of large scale Core Motion User Studies involving the Apple Watch and iPhone
Be directly responsible for the health study data collection and processing pipelines
Work with the Data Engineering team to develop general use tooling
Collaborate with Algorithm Engineering on data collection, processing, and distribution
Collaborate with Quality Engineering and Study Operations to design and implement frameworks to enable pipeline validation, monitoring and study management.

Your work will directly impact the development of health-related features across multiple Apple hardware platforms. The ideal candidate has demonstrable experience solving novel problems with unique data streams using various tools and strategies including parallel computing systems.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor/Masters Degree in Computer Science

• 3+ years of programming experience

• 1+ year distributed computing with Spark

• Strong software development skills, with a proficiency in both Object Oriented and Functional Python required

• Demonstrated skill and experience with parallel computing systems such as PySpark and SparkSQL

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity working with systems such as blob storage, elastic compute and virtual instances

• Familiarity with Software Development Life Cycles and the tools and methodologies that support them such as git, continuous integration, issue tracking, code reviews, quality assurance processes and scheduling.

• Pro-active communicator and collaborator, comfortable working within a distributed team

• Exposure to Signal Processing, numeric methods and data collection from embedded systems

• Experience with statistical inference methods for scientific experimentation

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $135,400 and $250,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.Learn more about Apple Benefits. (https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html)

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

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Apple will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation.

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