Apple
Machine Learning Engineer, Answers Knowledge and Information - Proactive
$175K–$308K
Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 10 years of work experience in machine learning, deep learning, or a related field; preferred qualifications also state at least 2 years in specified LLM fine-tuning techniques and at least 10 years leading complex cross-functional projects and working with large-scale model training, optimization, and deployment.
- Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field (preferred).
About the job
Research and develop machine learning and large language model systems for question answering, search, summarization, and other AI-powered Apple products, taking applied research into production.
What you'll do
- Develop, fine-tune, and evaluate domain-specific LLMs for NLP tasks such as summarization, question answering, ranking, entity linking, and query understanding.
- Research and build systems that retrieve, rank, and synthesize information, including summarization of personal data.
- Translate product requirements into modeling and engineering tasks and help bring generative AI research into production.
What they ask for
- 10 years of work experience in machine learning, deep learning, or a related field.
- Experience modeling user behavior, including personalization, online learning, and recommendation systems.
- Experience developing machine learning or LLM models for NLP tasks and RAG applications, including prompt engineering, training data, fine-tuning, and evaluation.
- Experience with Python and at least one of TensorFlow, PyTorch, or JAX.
Nice to have
- PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field.
- Experience with LLM fine-tuning techniques, cross-functional project leadership, large-scale model training and deployment, or a track record of shipping advanced ML models.
Pay
$175,000 and $308,500 USD base salary
Tools
Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, JAX, Large Language Models (LLMs), RAG, LoRA, RLHF
AI focus
Develop and apply generative AI and LLMs for open-domain question answering, search, summarization, query understanding, and personal-data summaries; fine-tune and evaluate domain-specific models and transfer research into production.
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