Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Apple Inc

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On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
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$184,700–$277,600 / yr
Posted
174 days 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

The Sr. Machine Learning Engineer joins the Search Safety team within the Siri and Information Intelligence group. In this role, you will build and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning models to detect, demote, and filter harmful, abusive, or policy-violating content across the search ecosystem. Your daily work involves addressing complex challenges like query intent understanding, adversarial evasion, jailbreaking, and multimodal content filtering. You will translate product requirements into modeling and engineering tasks, integrating safety signals into search ranking and retrieval pipelines while balancing safety constraints with search relevance. The role requires proficiency in at least two programming languages such as Python, Go, Java, or C/C++. You must also have experience utilizing PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX for training and deploying deep learning models.

What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in California?

Median $235750 from 200 postings across 34 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Build and deploy machine learning models to detect and filter harmful or policy-violating content.
  • Translate product requirements into specific modeling and engineering tasks.
  • Address complex challenges including query intent understanding and adversarial evasion.
  • Develop multimodal content filtering systems for the search ecosystem.
  • Integrate safety signals directly into search ranking and retrieval pipelines.
  • Balance safety constraints with search relevance and user engagement metrics.
  • Perform red-teaming, adversarial training, and robustness evaluations of ML models.

What we're looking for

  • 3+ years of industry-related experience working in collaborative environments.
  • Experience utilizing PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX for training and deploying deep learning models.
  • Ability to translate product requirements into modeling and engineering tasks.
  • Proficiency in at least two programming languages such as Python, Go, Java, or C/C++.
  • BS in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Safety, Computer Vision, or a related field or equivalent work experience.
  • Experience working on content moderation, spam detection, fraud, or Trust & Safety ML teams (preferred).
  • Experience in red-teaming, adversarial training, or robustness evaluation of ML models (preferred).
  • MS or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Safety, Computer Vision, or a related field (preferred).

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