Apple
Sr. Machine Learning Engineer - Answers, Knowledge & Information (AKI)
$185K–$325K
Santa Clara, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, or deep learning.
- Education
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in machine learning or a related field.
About the job
Develop and deploy machine learning systems that improve local search relevance and answer quality across Apple products including Siri and Spotlight.
What you'll do
- Own the ML development cycle, from exploration and prototyping through training, evaluation, and production deployment.
- Lead model development for retrieval, ranking, reranking, and query understanding; improve search quality using advanced ML techniques.
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership in ML system architecture and model design.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience in information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, or deep learning.
- Deep understanding of machine learning theory, including supervised learning, ranking models, embeddings, representation learning, and evaluation metrics.
- Proven ability to apply advanced ML techniques to improve search relevance and retrieval quality at scale.
- Experience leading experimentation, offline evaluation, and online A/B testing; Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in machine learning or a related field.
Nice to have
- Advanced diploma in AI, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or Mathematics
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 USD base salary
Tools
LLMs, learning-to-rank, embedding models, contrastive learning, multi-task learning, reinforcement learning
AI focus
Use machine learning and LLMs to understand queries, rank documents, and find useful answers; develop models for search retrieval, ranking, reranking, and query understanding.
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