Apple

Applied Machine Learning Engineer, Platform Architecture

Apple$150K — $180K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
  • Applied ML experience with complex ML systems in production.
  • Proficiency in applying modern ML techniques to large datasets.
  • Programming skills in Python and familiarity with deep learning frameworks.
  • Preferred: Knowledge of SoC compute, memory, and power-management subsystems.
  • Preferred: Expertise in time-series analysis and feature engineering.
  • Preferred: Experience with ML-driven decisions and optimization policies.

Responsibilities

  • Join a multidisciplinary team to enhance Apple SoC architecture.
  • Conduct ML-driven research to identify hardware and software optimizations.
  • Collaborate with silicon and OS teams for implementation of changes.
  • Analyze performance-power tradeoffs across various system components.
  • Monitor and evaluate system behavior to prevent bottlenecks.
  • Implement and refine dynamic voltage and frequency control policies.
  • Oversee results through the entire product lifecycle from concept to shipping.

Benefits

  • Collaborative and innovative team environment.
  • Opportunities for hands-on work with cutting-edge technology.
  • Engagement in a multidisciplinary approach to problem-solving.
  • Potential for impact on high-profile Apple products.
Full Job Description
Join the SoC Architecture team building ML and generative AI systems that shape how future Apple silicon is architected and tuned. We're looking for an AI/ML Engineer who can turn complex hardware data into architectural insight. You will apply that expertise to studying and improving the performance and power behavior of modern System-on-Chip designs across the full product lifecycle: ML-driven research to identify what should change in hardware or software, hands-on partnership with silicon and OS teams to implement and bring those changes up on real silicon, and seeing them through to ship. This role is ideal for a hands-on ML engineer who is energized by both research and shipping product, and who thrives at the intersection of large-scale data, system architecture, and ML.

Description

You will join a multidisciplinary team of ML, software, and architecture engineers building systems that drive architectural exploration and tuning for current and future Apple SoCs. The work targets the full performance-power tradeoff space across fabric, memory subsystem, system caches, dynamic voltage and frequency state control, clock and power gating policies, sleep state controls, and bottleneck prevention.

Minimum Qualifications

B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

Applied ML industry experience deploying complex ML systems in production.

Experience applying modern ML techniques to large real-world datasets.

Programming experience in Python and experience in modern deep learning frameworks.

Preferred Qualifications

Working knowledge of SoC compute, memory, and power-management subsystems, how real workloads exercise them, and the C/C++ modeling infrastructure typical of SoC environments.

Depth in time-series analysis, including feature engineering on streaming telemetry.

Experience applying ML beyond prediction, including driving decisions, optimizing policies, and efficiently searching large configuration spaces.

Track record of training large-scale models across distributed clusters.

Experience building stateful, multi-turn agentic frameworks and complex execution flows.

M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field and 10+ years of relevant experience.

Track record of moving quickly from hypothesis to result and iterating based on evidence.

Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively across technical disciplines.

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

Apple Careers

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Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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