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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