Backend Software Engineer - Camera & Photos Tools & AI Team

Job description

At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products and experiences very quickly. Bring your passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Apple's Camera & Photos Tools & AI team is a tight-knit engineering team building the internal tools that power how the Camera, Photos, and Image Quality teams measure, evaluate, and improve the imaging experience on Apple products.

Our software sits at the center of some of Apple's most demanding imaging workflows: it captures and catalogs enormous volumes of images and videos, orchestrates long-running analyses that characterize camera performance, and surfaces the results to the engineers and scientists who tune the hardware and software behind every photo our customers take. We move quickly, care about the craft, and turn ambiguous problems into reliable, well-designed systems.

You'll own backend services and data infrastructure end to end, from Python REST APIs to the model-serving infrastructure behind our AI-native tooling, partnering with engineering, science, and quality teams across Camera, Photos, and Image Quality. As AI capabilities advance rapidly, our team is actively building AI-native tooling, from integrating multimodal and vision models into image quality workflows to designing LLM-powered interfaces that let engineers query and interpret large datasets in natural language.

We want someone who doesn't just call a hosted API, but who can design, deploy, and operate the serving layer underneath it, and who holds AI-powered features to the same engineering bar as any other production code. If you enjoy owning problems end-to-end, writing services that people rely on, and collaborating across disciplines, we'd love to talk to you.