2 days ago
Responsibilities
- Take machine learning capabilities from initial prototypes through production-quality features on Apple Watch and iPhone.
- Build datasets, evaluations, prompts, model adaptations, and measurement systems for intelligence-backed fitness features.
- Write production Swift for software running on device and in server-side environments.
- Build tools and harnesses that help engineers develop and evaluate intelligence-backed features.
- Collaborate with Activity, Workout, Fitness+, Siri, and platform intelligence engineering teams.
- Set technical direction and influence outcomes across organizational boundaries.
Requirements
- 8+ years of industry experience, or a PhD in machine learning or a related field plus 5+ years of industry experience.
- Track record of shipping user-facing machine learning features through iteration to production quality.
- Deep hands-on experience with large language models, including prompting, fine-tuning, or adaptation.
- Strong evaluation methodology skills covering dataset design, metric development, human and automated evaluation, and evaluation limitations.
- Strong software engineering skills in a compiled language and/or proficiency with Python and the modern machine learning stack such as PyTorch or JAX.
- Strong product judgment and ability to balance technical ambition, feasibility, and user experience.
- Excellent communication skills for explaining technical tradeoffs to engineering and product partners.
- Preferred: production Swift experience including API design and performance and memory budgets.
- Preferred: experience deploying models on device, including quantization, compression, or latency optimization.
- Preferred: experience with time-series, sensor, or multimodal wearable data; privacy-preserving machine learning; health or fitness domains; or leading ML publications or equivalent industry impact.
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About Apple
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.