Apple
Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Matching, Apple Ads
$150K–$278K
Cupertino, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 12, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years required; 7+ years preferred.
- Education
- Master’s, or equivalent experience, in NLP, Machine Learning, Statistics, Forecasting, Optimization, Reinforcement Learning or a related field. PhD, or equivalent experience, is preferred.
About the job
Develop and productize machine-learning algorithms for Apple Ads retrieval and matching, improving ad relevance, quality, and platform outcomes while following Apple’s privacy principles.
What you'll do
- Own retrieval algorithm development end to end, from ideation and testing through productionization.
- Run experiments and evaluate business impact; present findings and contribute to research.
- Partner with product, business, and cross-functional teams to deliver robust new capabilities.
What they ask for
- 4+ years building machine-learning capabilities across product areas at scale.
- Experience in NLP, information retrieval, and search.
- Ability to apply research concepts in production-quality code and define testable research hypotheses tied to business impact.
- Master’s, or equivalent experience, in a related field; experience with production systems or equivalent industry projects, plus expertise in experimentation and research contributions.
Nice to have
- 7+ years building machine-learning capabilities at scale.
- PhD, or equivalent experience, in a related field with production-system or equivalent industry-project experience.
Pay
$150,400 and $277,600 USD base salary
Tools
NLP, information retrieval, search, Machine Learning, Statistics, Forecasting, Optimization, Reinforcement Learning
AI focus
Build and improve machine-learning algorithms for ad retrieval and matching, including applying research and experimentation to production systems.
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