Apple
Machine Learning Engineer
$216K–$325K
Sunnyvale, California · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years in LLMs, LMMs, computer vision, or related AI/ML technologies.
- Education
- Master's degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
About the job
Builds and scales machine-learning systems and data-curation tools for training Apple foundation models, including large language and multimodal models.
What you'll do
- Develop and deploy scalable models for information extraction, data selection, and synthetic data generation across large datasets.
- Design and analyze experiments on large language models and lead research projects, including cross-functional initiatives.
- Build data tooling to improve workflow velocity, reliability, and scalability.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of experience with LLMs, LMMs, computer vision, or related AI/ML technologies.
- Experience developing and evaluating ML models, building large-scale ML systems, and using distributed data processing frameworks.
- Strong programming skills and hands-on experience with a deep learning framework such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.
- Master's degree or Ph.D. in a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
Nice to have
- Experience advancing state-of-the-art LLMs or LMMs and deploying models for production-scale inference.
- Experience with Transformers, mixture-of-experts (MoE), multimodal models, or publications/significant industry impact in AI.
Pay
$216,200 and $324,800 (base salary)
Tools
PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, Transformers, mixture-of-experts (MoE)
AI focus
Pre-training data curation and model development for foundation models, including LLMs and multimodal models; research, data selection, synthetic data generation, and model evaluation.
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