Drimva

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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