Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Data and ML Innovation

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$142,300–$263,300 / yr
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1 day ago
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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

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TL;DR · Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Data and ML Innovation

AIML - Sr Machine Learning Engineer, Data and ML Innovation joins the AIML FM Data organization to improve Foundation Models using data and cutting-edge LLM techniques. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will drive ML innovations by identifying opportunity areas and experimenting with techniques to improve model training and evaluation efficiency. You will build and maintain large-scale LLM pretraining and post-training pipelines, including supervised fine-tuning, preference optimization, and continual learning. Responsibilities include designing evaluation frameworks for reasoning and tool use, building data pipelines for filtering and labeling, and developing agent training environments with sandboxed runtimes. You will utilize distributed frameworks and reinforcement learning infrastructure to solve technical problems related to model hillclimbing, dataset curation, and shipping high-impact AI capabilities into real-world applications.

What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $225000 from 65 postings across 14 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and implement large-scale LLM pretraining and post-training pipelines including SFT and preference optimization.
  • Drive model hillclimbing through dataset curation, hyperparameter tuning, and ablation studies.
  • Develop evaluation frameworks for offline benchmarks and online metrics covering reasoning and tool use.
  • Design and maintain verifiers and rubric-based reward systems for model alignment and agentic tasks.
  • Build data pipelines for data generation, filtering, labeling, and replay buffers.
  • Build and maintain agent training environments including tool APIs, simulators, and sandboxed runtimes.
  • Implement environment abstractions to support reinforcement learning and agent evaluation at scale.
  • Work on scalable training workflows using distributed frameworks and large-scale RL infrastructure.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of hands-on ML engineering experience.
  • At least 1+ years of experience working directly on large language models or generative AI.
  • Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Hands-on experience with LLM training workflows including pretraining, SFT, or preference optimization (RLHF, DPO, PPO).
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals including debugging, testing, code reviews, and production reliability.
  • Demonstrated publication records in relevant conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, or ICLR.
  • Direct experience with agentic systems, tool use, environment design, or reinforcement learning (preferred).
  • Experience with building or operating training environments, simulators, or model hillclimbing workflows (preferred).

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