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Apple

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

$175K–$325K

Cupertino, California +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026

Location
Cupertino, California
Seattle, Washington
Experience
At least 6 years in an applied research or machine learning role.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, NLP, Statistics, or a related field—or equivalent industry experience delivering production AI systems.

About the job

Develops and leads research and production deployment of LLM-powered systems for personalization, discovery, and other Apple services.

What you'll do

  • Design, deploy, and optimize LLM systems, including fine-tuning, evaluation, and safety alignment.
  • Lead research and product development in representation learning, NLP, semantic modeling, and retrieval-augmented generation.
  • Collaborate across teams, mentor researchers, and contribute through patents, publications, and technical leadership.

What they ask for

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, NLP, Statistics, or a related field—or equivalent industry experience delivering production AI systems.
  • Expert knowledge of deep learning and modern NLP, including transformer architectures and foundation model adaptation.
  • Experience developing LLMs, including fine-tuning, instruction tuning, and prompt engineering for domain-specific reasoning.
  • Proficiency in Python and PyTorch or TensorFlow, with production deployment experience.

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience with RAG pipelines and vector-based semantic search.
  • Experience with personalization, ranking, optimization algorithms, or RL/multi-armed bandit platforms.

Pay

USD $184,700–$324,800 base salary; USD $175,000–$308,500 base salary

Tools

LLM, RAG, Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Spark, RLHF

AI focus

Generative AI and LLMs for personalization, intelligent automation, customer understanding, and services discovery; includes research, production systems, model adaptation, evaluation, safety alignment, and inference optimization.

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