Apple
Machine Learning Engineer, Foundation Model Services
$175K–$325K
Santa Clara, California +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 11, 2026
- Location
- Santa Clara, California
Seattle, Washington - Experience
- 2+ years of industry experience building and shipping production software and/or machine learning systems; 5 year+ industry experience in ML technologies.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical field.
About the job
Build and operate services, tools, and inference systems that serve Apple’s large foundation models in production at low latency and high throughput.
What you'll do
- Work with product teams to build production solutions that serve models to customers in real time.
- Partner with foundation model researchers to prototype inference for new architectures and develop tools to identify performance bottlenecks.
- Write high-quality code and improve model serving across hardware and use cases.
What they ask for
- Proficiency in a modern programming language such as Go or Python.
- Experience deploying and operating cloud services using containers and Kubernetes/Docker.
- Experience building or operating high-throughput, low-latency services.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Nvidia TensorRT-LLM, vLLLM, DeepSpeed, or Nvidia Triton Server.
Pay
$175,000 and $308,500 USD base salary; $184,700 and $324,800 USD base salary
Tools
Go, Python, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Nvidia TensorRT-LLM
AI focus
Optimize and serve large language, vision, and speech models; develop inference for cutting-edge model architectures and improve model-serving performance.
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