Apple
Senior ML Engineer, Robotics - Special Projects
$185K–$325K
Santa Clara, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 1, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- MS/PhD in Computer Science, Math, Machine Learning, Robotics, or related fields.
About the job
Designs, evaluates, debugs, and integrates AI/ML robotic systems that solve real-world problems and enable new experiences in Apple products.
What you'll do
- Design and implement AI/ML robotic systems.
- Evaluate and debug complex AI systems.
- Integrate AI systems into a larger software stack.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering background and ability to break down large features into practical solutions.
- Experience building complete prototypes and continuously improving system performance.
- Familiarity with the full robotics stack, including controls, perception, planning, and navigation, and with modern ML approaches.
- Proficiency with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Swift and Apple developer tools.
- Experience training or fine-tuning multimodal foundational models, building RL models for robotics, or working with 3D geometry and resource-constrained deployment.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 USD base salary
Tools
VLMs, LLMs, Diffusions, RL, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Swift
AI focus
Develops AI/ML robotic systems, including potential work with modern ML approaches, multimodal foundational models, and reinforcement learning for robotics.
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