Apple
ML Engineer - Creator Studio
$142K–$278K
Cary, North Carolina +4 · Full-time · Posted Aug 17, 2026
- Location
- Cary, North Carolina
Cupertino, California
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
San Diego, California
Seattle, Washington - Experience
- 3+ years developing and shipping reliable, maintainable, testable code, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Build agentic AI features for Apple’s professional creative apps, translating foundation-model capabilities into reliable, useful product experiences that keep creators in control.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and evaluate agentic AI capabilities and improve product behavior through architecture, tool design, and structured output.
- Develop evaluations for open-ended creative tasks and investigate model and agent failures to improve quality.
- Work with on-device and server foundation models and collaborate with engineers, designers, app teams, and creative experts.
What they ask for
- 3+ years developing and shipping reliable, maintainable, testable code, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
- Hands-on experience applying LLMs / foundation models or multimodal ML to products or projects.
- Strong experimental-design intuition and statistical techniques to measure effects amid noise.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Experience building agentic systems, LLM tool-use / function-calling, or evaluation harnesses.
- Professional or power-user experience with creative tools and workflows.
Pay
$142,300 and $263,300 (USD, base salary); $150,400 and $277,600 (USD, base salary)
Tools
LLMs / foundation models, multimodal ML, Python, PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, Core ML, Swift
AI focus
Develop agentic AI for creative apps, including evaluation, prompting, tool and skill design, and optimization for on-device inference.
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