As a hands-on engineer, you will: Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ELT workflows to support AI and analytics use cases Develop clean, reliable, and well-modeled datasets for both batch and real-time consumption Partner closely with AI/ML engineers and platform teams to deliver high-quality data for model training, inference, and agent workflows Implement data quality, observability, and monitoring systems to ensure trust and reliability across pipelines Build and optimize data models in modern cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks) Use tools like DBT to create modular, testable, and well-documented transformation layers Orchestrate and manage workflows using tools such as Airflow, Prefect, or Dagster Optimize pipelines and queries for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency Contribute to the design of the data architecture supporting AI agents and autonomous workflows Enable self-service analytics and reporting for engineering and product teams Collaborate across teams to define and implement best practices for data engineering in an AI-first platform3+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or a related role in a production environment Proficiency in Python and SQL, including pipeline development, automation, and performance optimization Hands-on experience with cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks) Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability for data pipelines Experience with data modeling B.S. in Computer Science or similar or equivalent industry experienceExperience building AI/LLM-powered data pipelines, including RAG systems and integrations with APIs such as OpenAI or Anthropic Experience with real-time/streaming data systems such as Apache Kafka, Flink, or Spark Structured Streaming Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow, Prefect, or Dagster Knowledge of MLOps workflows, including feature engineering, model deployment, and monitoring (e.g., MLflow, Vertex AI) Experience with data quality, governance, and lineage tools (e.g., Great Expectations, Monte Carlo) Experience building and maintaining ELT pipelines using DBT Experience building dashboards and analytics using tools like Tableau, Looker, or Power BI Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and associated data services (e.g., S3, Glue, Dataflow). The team brings together data, application development, and machine learning - including generative AI - along with data services and customer success functions, to help IS&T build solutions more efficiently and streamline the adoption and embedding of generative AI across Apple.