Apple
AIML - Machine Learning Engineer, Visual Intelligence Technology
$175K–$325K
Santa Clara, California +1 · Full-time · Posted Jan 28, 2026
- Location
- Santa Clara, California
Seattle, Washington - Experience
- 5+ years required; preferred qualification asks for 3+ years of LLM-related experience.
- Education
- MS or PhD in a listed or related field; no equivalent-experience alternative stated.
About the job
Build and advance machine-learning systems for visual intelligence features, including large-scale models that understand visual scenes and domain-specific LLMs for Apple products.
What you'll do
- Explore models that understand and reason about complex visual scenes; design large-scale training pipelines and run experiments.
- Develop, fine-tune, and evaluate domain-specific LLMs with researchers and data scientists.
- Conduct applied research to transfer generative AI advances into production-ready technologies.
What they ask for
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Data Science, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in machine learning, deep learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, or data mining.
- Experience as a tech lead successfully leading a team to ship software to users.
- Excellent knowledge and practical skills in designing ML platforms, architectures, or algorithms; strong interpersonal skills and ability to work independently and in a team.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of experience in prompt engineering, fine-tuning, evaluating, and developing data collection/annotation/management tooling for LLMs.
- Experience with Keras, Tensorflow, or PyTorch.
Pay
$175,000 and $308,500 (USD, base pay range); $184,700 and $324,800 (USD, base pay range)
Tools
Visual Search, LLM, Keras, Tensorflow, PyTorch
AI focus
Develop and evaluate large-scale visual scene understanding models and domain-specific LLMs; apply generative AI research to production.
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