Apple
Sr Machine Learning Engineer - ML Platform
$185K–$278K
New York City, New York · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- PhD: 3+ years engineering and 5+ years machine learning; or MS: 6+ years engineering and 5+ years machine learning; or BS: 7+ years engineering and 5+ years machine learning.
- Education
- PhD, MS, or BS in Computer Science or a related field.
About the job
Build secure, scalable ML platform capabilities and backend systems that help Apple Ads teams develop, deploy, and scale machine learning features and applications.
What you'll do
- Design and develop scalable backend systems and ML platform capabilities used by multiple Ads teams.
- Build infrastructure and tools that support model development, deployment, serving, and continuous experimentation.
- Partner with ML engineers, scientists, and other teams to deliver reliable systems that support privacy commitments.
What they ask for
- Experience writing mission-critical production ML code and building ML infrastructure, frameworks, or services used by multiple teams.
- Experience building SDKs, APIs, automation UIs, automation, and CI/CD for development teams.
- Working experience building and deploying models; understanding of the ML lifecycle, model evaluation, train-serve skew, and data drift.
- Experience applying ML at scale in advertising, recommender systems, information retrieval, or related domains; working knowledge of deep learning architectures and PyTorch or TensorFlow.
Nice to have
- Experience with advertising, distributed training or low-latency model serving, foundation models, agentic AI, or privacy-preserving ML.
- Experience building infrastructure for LLMs, multimodal models, classical ML, and reinforcement learning.
Pay
$184,700 and $277,600 USD base salary
Tools
PyTorch, TensorFlow
AI focus
Build ML platform infrastructure and capabilities for model development, training, evaluation, deployment, and serving in advertising; preferred areas include foundation models, LLMs, multimodal models, reinforcement learning, and agentic AI.
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