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Apple

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Platform

$262K–$394K

Cupertino, California +1 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026

Location
Cupertino, California
New York City, New York
Experience
10+ years of industry experience is stated in a preferred qualification; no minimum years are specified.
Education
PhD/MS/BS in Computer Science or related field (preferred).

About the job

Build and operate scalable ML platform infrastructure for model training, fine-tuning, inference, and AI applications across Apple Ads.

What you'll do

  • Design and develop scalable model training and fine-tuning infrastructure.
  • Build platform capabilities that help teams develop, deploy, and operate ML applications.
  • Partner with ML engineers, scientists, and other teams to shape reliable, privacy-conscious platform architecture.

What they ask for

  • Experience building shared ML platforms, frameworks, or services used by multiple teams.
  • Deep understanding of the ML lifecycle, including training pipelines, evaluation, and deployment.
  • Deep understanding of deep learning architectures and training frameworks.
  • Experience applying ML at scale in Ads, recommender systems, information retrieval, or related domains; and experience with distributed training and optimization techniques.

Nice to have

  • Experience with privacy-preserving ML, such as federated learning or differential privacy.
  • Experience with LLM training and inference or Agentic AI; PhD/MS/BS in Computer Science or related field with 10+ years of industry experience is also listed.

Pay

$262,500 and $394,000 USD base salary range

Tools

Transformers, LLMs, DNNs, TensorFlow, PyTorch

AI focus

Build ML training and fine-tuning infrastructure at scale, including distributed training and optimization; the team also provides infrastructure for inference and agentic AI.

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