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Machine Learning Engineer - Apple News

Apple • $145K — $175K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • 2+ years of experience in machine learning infrastructure or software engineering with ML systems exposure.
  • Proficient in Java and/or Python; interested in production serving systems.
  • Experience in ML infrastructure components: model serving, deployment pipelines, or feature delivery systems.
  • Some exposure to cloud-based ML model deployments (AWS and/or GCP).
  • Familiarity with data pipeline tools like Apache Spark.

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate infrastructure for ML-driven product features.
  • Develop and maintain systems for serving and monitoring ML models.
  • Collaborate with teams to define requirements for ML features.
  • Contribute to architectural discussions for ML infrastructure.
  • Drive ML infrastructure projects from concept to production.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on unique ML problems spanning privacy and personalization.
  • Hands-on experience with high-performance ML-powered features.
  • Mentorship from senior engineers in the field.
  • Collaboration across cross-functional teams including modeling, product, and data science.
Full Job Description
Apple News is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to help build, operate, and grow the systems that power intelligent features for millions of people every day. In this role, you will build hands-on experience with model serving, deployment pipelines, distributed systems, and ML platform infrastructure, working alongside senior engineers to ship reliable, high-performance ML-powered features across content tagging, ranking, and personalization. You are someone who is excited to grow at the intersection of software engineering and machine learning, and takes pride in contributing to the infrastructure that makes great models matter at scale. At Apple News, our ML problems are uniquely hard, spanning privacy-preserving personalization, on-device considerations, and the balance between editorial and algorithmic curation, and we're looking for engineers who are eager to learn and grow while helping solve them.

Description

As a Machine Learning Engineer on the Apple News team, you will contribute to building and operating the infrastructure that powers ML-driven product features spanning content tagging, ranking, clustering, and personalization. With guidance from senior engineers, you will help build and maintain systems that host, serve, and monitor both classical and deep learning models in production, with a focus on reliability, low latency, and scalability at Apple scale. You will develop your understanding of trade-offs across tools and technologies, contribute to architectural discussions, and help drive well-scoped pieces of ML infrastructure from concept to production. You will collaborate closely with modeling, product, data science, and platform teams to help define requirements and deliver features that have measurable impact on user engagement and content quality.

Minimum Qualifications

MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience in this domain

2+ years of industry experience in machine learning infrastructure or software engineering with exposure to ML systems

Solid proficiency in Java and/or Python, with an interest in production serving systems

Experience contributing to or building components of ML infrastructure: model serving, deployment pipelines, or feature delivery systems

Some exposure to deploying ML models on cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP), with a developing understanding of deployment trade-offs across latency, cost, and scalability

Familiarity with RAG concepts (retrieval, embedding, chunking, or reranking strategies) is a plus

Experience building or contributing to data pipelines for A/B test analysis or training dataset creation using tools such as Apache Spark

Good cross-functional communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to teammates

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with inference optimization techniques such as quantization, batching, caching, and model distillation to improve serving efficiency

Exposure to embedding pipeline infrastructure or vector store concepts, such as indexing strategies, approximate nearest neighbor search, and latency vs. recall considerations

Interest in content personalization or recommendation systems at consumer scale

Any experience contributing to AI-powered features with measurable impact on user engagement or content quality

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.

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