Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Apple Inc
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This role pays more than 82% of similar roles. Most pay $179,968–$248,215 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $255k versus about $214k 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 1961 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $175,000–$277,600 across 1589 roles with salary data.
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As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer within the ASE AI/ML organization, you will lead the development of foundational intelligence capabilities across various service ecosystems. You will architect and deploy LLM-powered systems to enhance personalization, intelligent automation, and customer understanding. Your daily work involves leading research in large-scale representation learning, semantic modeling, and retrieval-augmented generation while developing taxonomies and embeddings for high-dimensional data. You will drive critical tasks including fine-tuning, safety alignment, and inference optimization techniques like quantization and distillation. The role requires expertise in Python, PyTorch, or TensorFlow, along with experience in distributed data processing using Spark. You will solve complex problems involving language understanding and behavioral inference by building production-grade solutions that allow systems to reason over text and domain-specific knowledge at scale while mentoring other researchers on technical excellence.
What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in California?
Median $246150 from 173 postings across 30 companies.
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