Apple
AI/ML Architect, Retail and Marcom Engineering
$216K–$325K
Sunnyvale, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 10 years in software engineering or AI/ML, including 3-4+ years in an architect or technical leadership role.
- Education
- BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Defines the architecture and technical strategy for enterprise-scale AI/ML systems and intelligent experiences supporting Apple’s creative marketing team.
What you'll do
- Own end-to-end AI/ML system architecture, standards, design patterns, and best practices across teams.
- Architect scalable GenAI pipelines and conversational AI platforms, optimizing performance, reliability, and cost.
- Set the AI/ML roadmap with business and engineering leaders, and mentor teams through design reviews and adoption.
What they ask for
- 10 years of software engineering or AI/ML experience, including 3-4+ years in an architect or technical leadership role designing enterprise-scale AI/ML systems.
- Experience delivering production generative AI solutions, including LLM architectures, fine-tuning, and RAG.
- Experience architecting multi-agent systems using orchestration frameworks and designing prompt strategies at scale.
- BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- MS or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Experience with multi-modal models, Graph RAG pipelines, or RAG benchmarking and evaluation.
Pay
$216,200 and $324,800 USD base salary
Tools
LLMs, RAG, LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, Graph RAG, Terraform, Docker
AI focus
Architects enterprise GenAI and AI/ML systems, including LLM pipelines, RAG, multi-agent workflows, conversational AI, and AIOps; optimizes accuracy, latency, reliability, and cost.
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