Apple

Sr Machine Learning Engineer - ML Platform

Apple
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Responsibilities

  • Design and develop secure, scalable, high-performing backend systems for Apple Ads machine learning teams.
  • Build ML infrastructure, frameworks, and services used by multiple teams.
  • Develop SDKs, APIs, automation interfaces, and developer tooling for ML practitioners.
  • Support training, evaluation, deployment, serving, and inferencing across the ML lifecycle.
  • Build and operationalize infrastructure for LLMs, multimodal models, classical ML, reinforcement learning, and foundation models.
  • Improve reliability, simplicity, scalability, privacy protection, and developer experience across ML platforms.
  • Collaborate with machine learning engineers, scientists, and technical and non-technical partners.
  • Apply machine learning at scale to advertising, recommender systems, information retrieval, or related domains.

Requirements

  • Experience writing mission-critical production code for machine learning systems.
  • Experience building ML infrastructure, frameworks, or services used by multiple teams.
  • Experience building SDKs, APIs, automation UIs, and CI/CD automation.
  • Working experience building and deploying models across training, evaluation, deployment, and serving or inferencing.
  • Understanding of model evaluation, train-serve skew, data drift, and deep learning architectures.
  • Working knowledge of PyTorch or TensorFlow.
  • Strong problem-solving, debugging, performance-tuning, communication, ownership, and product judgment skills.
  • PhD in Computer Science or a related field with 3+ years of engineering experience and 5+ years of machine learning experience; or MS with 6+ years of engineering experience and 5+ years of machine learning experience; or BS with 7+ years of engineering experience and 5+ years of machine learning experience.
  • Preferred experience includes advertising, distributed training, large-scale low-latency model serving, foundation models, agentic AI, and privacy-preserving ML.

Tech Stack

PyTorchTensorFlow
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About Apple

10,000+ employees

Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and services for consumers and professionals worldwide, including iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods, plus platforms like iOS/macOS and services such as the App Store, iCloud, Music, and TV+. Its business combines device sales with services and subscriptions and in-house silicon design. Founded in 1976, Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, and trades on NASDAQ as AAPL.

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