Apple
Senior AI/ML Engineer, Media Understanding
$185K–$325K
Cupertino, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- At least 8 years building and shipping production ML or large-scale software systems.
- Education
- BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. MS or PhD in Computer Science, ML or a related field preferred.
About the job
Serve as Apple’s Cupertino technical presence for media understanding, connecting partner teams with the team’s content-understanding systems and helping shape technical direction.
What you'll do
- Design solutions using media-understanding capabilities to meet partner engineering teams’ needs.
- Represent the team in Cupertino technical and planning discussions and keep colleagues in Barcelona connected.
- Contribute to technical direction, design reviews, and hands-on work on content-understanding systems.
What they ask for
- BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 8 years of experience building and shipping production ML or large-scale software systems.
- Experience working across teams and influencing technical decisions beyond your own team.
- Clear written and confident verbal communication with engineers and leaders.
Nice to have
- Experience with multimodal understanding, generative AI, knowledge graphs, or semantic search.
- Experience with media content or catalogs; familiarity with Apple Services teams and systems; or experience working with distributed teams across timezones.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 (USD, base salary)
AI focus
Media understanding and content understanding, including how media content relates and how that understanding powers Apple Services experiences.
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