Apple
Robot ML Engineer
$150K–$278K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Aug 17, 2026
- Education
- MS/PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Math, or related field
About the job
Designs, evaluates, debugs, and integrates AI/ML systems for real-world robotics problems and Apple products.
What you'll do
- Design and implement AI/ML systems to solve real-world problems.
- Evaluate and debug complex AI systems.
- Integrate AI systems into a larger software stack.
What they ask for
- MS/PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Math, or a related field.
- Strong software engineering background.
- Ability to break down large features and implement practical solutions.
- Strong proficiency with robot planning and decision making, such as reasoning under uncertainty, POMDPs, or intent prediction.
Nice to have
- Strong proficiency with modern ML approaches or classical robotic algorithms.
- Familiarity with the full robotics stack, Swift, and Apple developer tools.
Pay
$150,400 and $277,600 USD base salary
Tools
POMDPs, LLMs, VLMs, VLAs, Diffusion Models, Swift
AI focus
Designing and implementing AI/ML systems, including robot planning and decision making; evaluating, debugging, and integrating AI systems.
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