Staff Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI, Search & Knowledge Platforms

Apple Inc

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Location
Seattle, WA
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$175,000–$308,500 / yr
Posted
58 days ago
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TL;DR · Staff Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI, Search & Knowledge Platforms

Staff / Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, AI, Search & Knowledge Platforms joins the Information Intelligence team to build and optimize large-scale extraction and enrichment pipelines. This role involves transforming raw web content into structured knowledge for Siri, Spotlight, and Safari by designing scalable algorithms and advanced deduplication techniques. The engineer will develop ML classifiers for data quality, manage model serving and batch workloads, and create high-fidelity training corpora for foundation models to improve reasoning and grounding. Key technical requirements include proficiency in Golang, Java, Scala, or Python, along with experience in Spark, distributed systems, and cloud-native environments like AWS. The role focuses on the core problem of web-scale data processing, utilizing large language models, NLP, and entity linking frameworks to integrate diverse sources into a unified Knowledge Graph while optimizing for cost, throughput, and reliability.

What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $241750 from 66 postings across 14 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Build and optimize large-scale extraction pipelines to transform raw web data into structured knowledge.
  • Design pipelines using LLMs, advanced NLP, and entity linking to identify and contextualize information.
  • Develop ML classifiers for data quality, deduplication, and content filtering across billions of records.
  • Optimize infrastructure for cost, throughput, and reliability in model serving and batch ML workloads.
  • Improve extraction quality to create high-fidelity training corpora for Apple's foundation models.
  • Maintain the Knowledge Graph by integrating diverse data sources into a unified representation.
  • Develop and maintain machine learning frameworks and tooling for search and knowledge systems.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field.
  • 4+ years of experience in fine-tuning LLMs, building large-scale extraction pipelines, or optimizing ML infrastructure.
  • Experience taking machine learning models to production, including training and evaluation.
  • Proficiency in Golang, Java, Scala, or Python.
  • Strong background in computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.
  • Experience working in cloud-native environments such as AWS.
  • Experience with large-scale data processing pipelines using Spark or similar distributed frameworks.
  • Familiarity with NLP, information extraction, web data systems, and ML inference frameworks like TensorRT-LLM or vLLM.

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