Apple
Sr. Machine Learning Engineer
$175K–$278K
Santa Clara, California +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Location
- Santa Clara, California
Seattle, Washington - Experience
- 3+ years of related industry experience.
- Education
- BS in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Safety, Computer Vision, or a related field, or equivalent work experience. MS or PhD in a related field or equivalent work experience is preferred.
About the job
Build and deploy machine-learning models that detect, demote, and filter harmful or policy-violating content across Apple’s search ecosystem.
What you'll do
- Develop models for content safety, including query intent understanding and multimodal content filtering.
- Address adversarial evasion, jailbreaking, and related robustness challenges.
- Integrate safety signals into search ranking and retrieval pipelines while balancing safety, relevance, and user engagement.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of related industry experience in collaborative environments.
- Experience training and deploying deep-learning models with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.
- Ability to translate product requirements into modeling and engineering tasks.
- Proficiency in at least two programming languages, such as Python, Go, Java, or C/C++; BS in a related field or equivalent work experience.
Nice to have
- Experience in content moderation, spam detection, fraud, or Trust & Safety ML.
- Experience in red-teaming, adversarial training, or robustness evaluation of ML models.
Pay
$175,000 and $263,300 (base salary); $184,700 and $277,600 (base salary)
Tools
PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, Python, Go, Java, C/C++
AI focus
Applied machine learning for search safety, content moderation, harmful-content detection, and robust multimodal filtering.
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