Apple

Machine Learning Engineer - Intelligent Quality Systems

Apple$130K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in machine learning with substantial project involvement
  • Strong programming skills for writing clean, maintainable code
  • Understanding of ML fundamentals including model training and evaluation
  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or related field
  • Familiarity with NLP, large language models, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) (preferred)
  • Experience with computer vision or multimodal ML (preferred)
  • Knowledge of CI/CD systems and developer tooling (preferred)

Responsibilities

  • Design and evaluate ML techniques for large-scale software systems
  • Prototype solutions for change-impact prediction and failure analysis
  • Develop strategies for data collection and evaluation in testing
  • Build robust systems for large-scale test result analysis
  • Identify and address data quality and system design gaps
  • Enhance productivity and software quality through ML applications
  • Serve as a link between research concepts and production implementation

Benefits

  • Work in a collaborative environment with a focus on innovative ML solutions
  • Opportunity to impact software quality for millions of users
  • Involvement in cutting-edge machine learning projects
  • Access to advanced tools and large-scale data sets
  • Engagement with a world-class engineering team
Full Job Description
The Intelligent Quality Systems team designs and builds ML-powered systems that transform how Apple approaches software quality at scale. We work across the testing lifecycle: intelligently selecting which tests are most relevant to a code change, automatically triaging test failures to their root cause, validating UI and audio experiences with vision models, surfacing test coverage gaps from change descriptions and defect history, and building the data platforms that tie it all together. In this role, you'll bring ML ideas to life on real-world, large-scale software systems. You'll prototype and evaluate techniques for problems like change-impact prediction, LLM-powered failure analysis, multimodal UI regression detection, and automated test recommendation. You'll design data collection and evaluation strategies, work with large-scale test result and code change data, and build systems robust enough to operate reliably across one of the world's largest software engineering organizations. You will be a crucial bridge between research ideas and production reality, identifying gaps in data quality, modeling assumptions, and system design before they become issues at scale. You'll succeed here if you enjoy turning ideas into working ML systems, care deeply about measurement and rigorous evaluation, and find it rewarding to see your work directly improve the productivity and quality of software shipped to hundreds of millions of people.

Minimum Qualifications

3+ years of experience with machine learning in academic or professional settings, with demonstrated work on substantial ML projects beyond coursework

Strong programming and software engineering skills; ability to write clean, maintainable, production-quality code

Practical understanding of ML fundamentals, model training, evaluation, and debugging, and ability to implement algorithms from papers or specifications

BS or MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with NLP, large language models, code understanding, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)

Background in computer vision or multimodal ML

Experience building or maintaining data pipelines and ML infrastructure at scale

Familiarity with software testing, CI/CD systems, or developer tooling

Experience working with large-scale structured or semi-structured data (logs, test results, code diffs)

Comfort operating in environments where ground truth labels are noisy, ambiguous, or expensive to obtain

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