Apple
Machine Learning Engineer
$185K–$325K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
About the job
Build and operate Apple Music personalization and recommendation systems, from data pipelines and model inference to global online services.
What you'll do
- Develop low-latency, scalable services that use data from multiple sources to personalize Apple Music features.
- Deploy and optimize systems globally for performance, resiliency, and customer experience while respecting privacy.
- Prototype recommendation algorithm changes, run A/B tests, and collaborate across teams to launch user-facing features.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience crafting highly scalable recommendation systems.
- Understanding of concurrency, algorithms, and object-oriented programming.
- Ability to engineer modern ML-driven systems that support fast iteration.
- Effective collaboration with researchers to improve recommendation algorithms.
Nice to have
- Experience engineering ML-driven pipelines, APIs, and services at scale.
- Extensive experience with object-oriented languages such as Java, C++, and Python.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 USD base salary
Tools
Java, C++, Python
AI focus
Develop and improve machine-learned recommendation models, training and inference, data pipelines, and personalized features; prototype algorithm changes and evaluate them with A/B tests.
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