Senior ML Data Engineer

Apple Inc

Confirmed live today High trust

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Cupertino, CA
Salary
$184,700–$324,800 / yr
Posted
15 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today

Market check

Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $211k
This role $255k
$147k most similar roles pay here $344k

This role pays more than 91% of similar roles. Most pay $180,262–$241,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $255k versus about $211k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

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

Apple Inc currently has 3513 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $165,800–$277,600 across 2730 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Apple Inc

At a glance

TL;DR · Senior ML Data Engineer

Senior ML Data Engineer, MLO joins the ML Data Team of the Intelligent System Experience group to build high-quality datasets at scale for various products and features. The role involves operating and maintaining data pipelines to process billion-scale multimodal data while creating automated workflows, self-service tools, and synthetic data orchestrations. You will focus on acquiring, synthesizing, annotating, and ensuring the quality of machine learning data in collaboration with R&D teams. Key technical requirements include proficiency in Python or Go, experience with Spark, Airflow, BigQuery, and Iceberg, and a background in delivering large-scale multimodal datasets for foundation models. The work addresses critical challenges in producing training data for generative models, agentic capabilities, and vision-based features like face detection and personalized content within the mobile and desktop ecosystem.

What you'll do

  • Operate and maintain data pipelines to process billion-scale multimodal data.
  • Automate workflows and build self-service tools for visualization, compliance, and ML enrichment.
  • Productionize synthetic data workflows including orchestration and lineage.
  • Integrate frontier generative models and agentic capabilities into existing data pipelines.
  • Identify improvements for internal infrastructure and influence the roadmaps of partner teams.
  • Deliver large-scale multimodal datasets specifically for foundation models.
  • Mentor engineers and improve software engineering excellence within the ML data operations team.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • 7+ years of industry experience as a data engineer serving various ML applications (vision domain preferred).
  • Experience designing, automating, and scaling large data pipelines using technologies like Iceberg, BigQuery, Airflow, or Spark (preferred).
  • Expertise in Python, Go, or another modern programming language to produce high-quality code (preferred).
  • Ability to design and lead a technical roadmap while influencing cross-functional teams (preferred).
  • Experience delivering large-scale multimodal datasets for foundation models (preferred).
  • Ability to work autonomously in fast-paced environments and handle ambiguity (preferred).
  • Proven track record of mentoring engineers and improving software engineering excellence (preferred).

More like this

Similar roles

Senior ML Data Engineer

Apple Inc

Cupertino, CA 168 days ago $184,700–$324,800
Python Go Spark Airflow BigQuery Iceberg Data Pipelines Machine Learning Multimodal Data Synthetic Data Software Engineering
7+ yrs exp

ML Data Operations Engineer

Apple Inc

Cupertino, CA 72 days ago $184,700–$324,800
Machine Learning Data Pipelines Annotation Tools Dataset Management Technical Documentation Data Schema User Research Operations Data Collection
10+ yrs exp

Senior ML Engineer, ML Experimentation Portal

Apple Inc

Cupertino, CA 15 days ago $184,700–$277,600
React TypeScript JavaScript Python Java 21 Spring Boot SQL PostgreSQL AWS Docker D3.js Chart.js Splunk DataDog A/B Testing Data Structures and Algorithms
10+ yrs exp

Senior ML Engineer

Salesforce

Remote (Bellevue, WA) 32 days ago
Python Apache Kafka Flink Ray Spark PySpark MLOps CI/CD Docker Kubernetes Apache Airflow Feature Stores Graph Analytics Supervised Learning Anomaly Detection Clustering MITRE ATT&CK OCSF
3+ yrs exp Remote