Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Evaluation
Apple Inc
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This role pays less than 65% of similar roles. Most pay $211,200–$254,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $214k versus about $233k for comparable roles.
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Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software
Apple Inc currently has 2305 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $175,000–$280,000 across 1873 roles with salary data.
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As a Sr Machine Learning Engineer within the Data and ML Innovation team, you will contribute to the development of large language models and agentic systems. You will drive model hillclimbing through systematic experimentation, including dataset curation, hyperparameter tuning, and ablation studies to improve training and evaluation efficiency. Your daily work involves designing and implementing large-scale pretraining and post-training pipelines, such as supervised fine-tuning and preference optimization. Additionally, you will build data pipelines for filtering and labeling, develop reward systems for model alignment, and construct agent training environments including tool APIs and sandboxed runtimes. The role requires expertise in LLM training workflows, distributed frameworks, and reinforcement learning infrastructure. You will solve complex problems regarding model quality and performance by bridging the gap between research, infrastructure, and product to power advanced features like Apple Intelligence.
What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in California?
Median $246150 from 187 postings across 29 companies.
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