Apple
Machine Learning Engineer - Video Generation Models
$142K–$278K
San Diego Metro Area, California +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 10, 2026
- Location
- San Diego Metro Area, California
San Francisco Bay Area, California - Experience
- Minimum of 3 years relevant industry experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or relevant degree.
About the job
Trains, adapts, and optimizes video generation models from pre-training through efficient inference, while building reliable training and evaluation systems.
What you'll do
- Pre-train video generation models and run, monitor, and debug large-scale distributed training.
- Improve training and inference efficiency, adapting models through fine-tuning, preference optimization, and distillation.
- Build reproducible training and evaluation code and collaborate with product and research stakeholders.
What they ask for
- Experience with large-scale generative model training for video generation.
- Experience running distributed training across multi-node GPU clusters.
- Strong Python software engineering skills and proficiency with PyTorch or JAX.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or relevant degree.
Nice to have
- MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering.
- Experience with video generation architectures, foundation-model pre-training, large-scale training operations, or model adaptation and inference efficiency.
Pay
$142,300 and $263,300 (base salary); $150,400 and $277,600 (base salary)
Tools
Python, PyTorch, JAX
AI focus
Develop and pre-train video generation models; fine-tune and optimize them for efficient inference.
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