Apple
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Natural Language Generation
$175K–$308K
Seattle, Washington · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Education
- MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Own model quality and develop modeling pipelines for Summarization and other Apple Intelligence language features shipped to a global audience.
What you'll do
- Prioritize and drive modeling work; analyze user feedback and evaluation data to identify model shortcomings.
- Define evaluation mechanisms and workflows for data curation, metric calibration, and model improvement.
- Research post-training methods and implement pipelines, experiments, and simulations to assess modeling changes.
What they ask for
- MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- History of shipping AI features built on language models.
- Experience building and maintaining end-to-end model pipelines, from data curation/synthesis and LLM judges to post-training.
- Strong Python programming skills, including developing production-quality Python modules.
Nice to have
- History of driving cross-functional collaborations and leading technical efforts.
- Expertise deploying models on-device, or background in linguistics, multiple languages, or scaling NLP features globally.
Pay
$175,000 and $308,500 (base salary)
Tools
Python, LLM judges, SFT, PEFT, RLHF
AI focus
Develop and improve language-model-based AI features, including Summarization; work includes data synthesis and curation, prompt engineering, model evaluation, and research into SFT, PEFT, RLHF, and distillation.
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