Apple
Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Automation for Translation and Multilingual Intelligence
$150K–$278K
Cupertino, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years.
About the job
Develop scalable automation pipelines and tools to train, evaluate, and deploy machine learning models for machine translation and related NLP tasks.
What you'll do
- Build and optimize ML automation pipelines for distributed data processing, model training, and inference.
- Develop production-quality models and ML CI/CD pipelines at scale.
- Work with software engineers and QE to integrate ML models into production systems.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of experience in ML lifecycle, model management, data processing, large distributed systems, and cloud computing.
- Proficiency in Python and experience with ML infrastructure tools such as vLLM, SGLang, TRT-llm, Slime, or Megatron-LM.
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with model fine-tuning, evaluation, experiment tracking, pipeline building, and deployment.
- Experience with LLMs or neural machine translation; knowledge of NLP, MT, ASR, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, or transformer architectures.
Pay
$150,400 to $277,600 USD base salary
Tools
Spark, Ray, Dask, Python, vLLM, SGLang, TRT-llm, Megatron-LM
AI focus
Machine learning automation for machine translation and related NLP tasks, including scalable training, evaluation, deployment, and inference pipelines.
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