Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Apple Inc
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This role pays more than 82% of similar roles. Most pay $184,625–$254,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $255k versus about $220k 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 1984 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $175,000–$277,600 across 1590 roles with salary data.
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As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Cloud AI Platform team, you will build and operate the infrastructure powering large-scale model builds and generative AI applications. You will design systems for ingestion, immutable versioning, and governance of multimodal data at petabyte scale while developing Python SDKs and core data libraries to streamline the development loop. Your daily work involves building high-throughput data loading primitives for GPU fleets, managing distributed pipelines using Spark, Daft, and Rust-based systems, and optimizing integrations with PyTorch, JAX, and TensorFlow. You will also manage data lineage, privacy controls, and infrastructure for retrieval-augmented systems. The role requires expertise in Python, Java, or Go, along with experience in large-scale distributed systems, performance engineering for I/O-bound workloads, and managing complex data planes to ensure reliable, reproducible machine learning workflows.
What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in California?
Median $246394 from 172 postings across 28 companies.
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