Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Cupertino, CA
Salary
$184,700–$324,800 / yr
Posted
1 day ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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About Apple Inc

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

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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What you'll do

  • Architect and deploy LLM-powered systems for personalization, automation, and customer understanding across the service ecosystem.
  • Lead research in large-scale representation learning, semantic modeling, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
  • Develop taxonomies, embeddings, and model architectures to analyze complex behaviors in high-dimensional data.
  • Execute LLM fine-tuning, evaluation, safety alignment, and optimization strategies for production environments.
  • Productize advanced techniques including multi-agent orchestration, RLHF, and inference optimization.
  • Build prototypes and production-grade solutions that enable reasoning over text and behavioral signals at scale.
  • Contribute to company leadership through patent filings, publications, and internal technical thought leadership.
  • Mentor other researchers in experimentation, code quality, and scientific rigor.

What we're looking for

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, NLP, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience delivering production AI systems.
  • At least 6 years of experience in an applied research or machine learning role.
  • Expert knowledge of deep learning and modern NLP, including transformer architectures and foundation model adaptation.
  • Experience with LLM development, including fine-tuning, instruction tuning, and prompt engineering for domain-specific reasoning.
  • Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow to deploy models in production systems.
  • Strong understanding of distributed data processing systems (e.g., Spark) and large-scale experimentation.
  • Proven ability to communicate research outcomes, architectural decisions, and technical tradeoffs to diverse stakeholders.
  • Experience with RAG pipelines, inference optimization, RLHF, and publication/patent records (preferred).

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