Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Platform

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$216,200–$394,000 / yr
Posted
107 days ago
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This role $305k
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This role pays more than 93% of similar roles. Most pay $211,200–$256,950 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $305k versus about $234k 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

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Platform

As a Sr Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Platform, you will join the Machine Learning Platform team to build and develop world-class platform capabilities that empower Apple Ads teams to scale machine learning features, models, and applications. You will design and develop model training and fine-tuning infrastructure at scale while building high-performing systems from the ground up. Your work involves developing tools for model fine-tuning and infrastructure supporting distributed training, optimization techniques like pruning, compression, quantization, and distillation. You will utilize technologies including TensorFlow, PyTorch, and deep learning architectures such as Transformers, LLMs, and DNNs. The role focuses on solving complex ad network challenges while ensuring privacy commitments are met through advanced methods like federated learning and differential privacy. You will also work with agentic AI and inference for large language models.

What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in New York?

Median $216000 from 43 postings across 13 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and develop model training and fine-tuning infrastructure at scale.
  • Build a self-serve, unified platform for training, inference, and agentic AI.
  • Develop high-performing machine learning systems from the ground up to support multiple teams.
  • Implement distributed training techniques including pruning, compression, quantization, and distillation.
  • Create tools and infrastructure for large-scale model fine-tuning and deployment.
  • Architect ML solutions that adhere to strict privacy commitments and data standards.
  • Develop infrastructure supporting LLM pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, and inference.

What we're looking for

  • Experience building shared ML platforms, frameworks, or services used by multiple teams or organizations.
  • Deep understanding of the ML lifecycle including training pipelines, evaluation methodologies, and deployment patterns.
  • Deep understanding of deep learning architectures like Transformers, LLMs, and DNNs using TensorFlow or PyTorch.
  • Prior experience applying ML at scale in ads, recommender systems, information retrieval, or related domains.
  • Experience in distributed training at scale and optimization techniques such as pruning, compression, quantization, and distillation.
  • Experience building AI/ML tooling for model fine-tuning and infrastructure at scale.
  • Experience with privacy-preserving ML, LLM training and inference, and Agentic AI.
  • A PhD, MS, or BS in Computer Science or a related field with 10+ years of industry experience in building ML systems.

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