Apple

Machine Learning Engineer, Intelligent Sensing Technology - Incubation

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

Qualifications

  • BS in relevant field with 3+ years of ML/AI engineering experience
  • Familiarity with advanced architectures like transformers and reinforcement learning
  • Strong coding skills in modern ML frameworks, particularly PyTorch
  • Experience building end-to-end ML pipelines from data acquisition to deployment
  • Background in integrating multimodal sensing systems with ML models on various platforms
  • MS or PhD with applied research background in relevant areas
  • Excellent ability to communicate technical concepts to diverse teams

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with design and product teams to prototype intelligent camera features
  • Develop and integrate ML models across the product ecosystem
  • Conduct exploratory research on advanced ML/AI architectures
  • Build and optimize end-to-end ML pipelines
  • Navigate ambiguous challenges and adapt to evolving project directions
  • Articulate technical trade-offs and project rationales to stakeholders
  • Foster cross-disciplinary collaboration with hardware, software, and design teams

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary team
  • Engagement in innovative projects shaping future camera technologies
  • Collaboration with top talent across design and product domains
  • Access to advanced tools and technologies in machine learning
  • Chance to explore various technological and design challenges through rapid prototyping
Full Job Description
Our Camera Incubation team is a multi-disciplinary team responsible for looking down the road and prototyping new experiences, architectures and technologies. We collaborate with design and product teams to bring new features across the Apple product line. Join us as together we explore concept prototypes, helping shape what intelligent cameras can sense, understand, and do-and the experience they create for the people who use them.

We're looking for a creative ML Research Engineer to join our incubation team, where you'll work across the full stack, from model training and systems integration to rapid prototyping. While working on a diverse portfolio of exploratory projects, you'll bring deep practical knowledge of ML/AI architectures and multimodal sensing applied to physical spaces, paired with a design-centric approach to moving ideas from experiment to integrated system. The ideal candidate is energized by open questions, comfortable navigating ambiguity, quick to reorient when new data shifts the direction, and always able to clearly articulate the motivation, tradeoffs, and risks behind their approach.

BS and a minimum of 3 years relevant industry experience in machine learning or AI engineering Familiarity with state-of-the-art architectures including transformers, reinforcement learning, and predictive inference Strong coding skills across modern ML frameworks (e.g. PyTorch), with a practical approach to tooling that includes AI-assisted development as a natural part of the workflow Proven experience building end-to-end ML pipelines, from data acquisition and preprocessing through training, evaluation, and deployment Experience architecting and integrating sensing systems that fuse multimodal signals (e.g. vision, audio, IMU, LiDAR) with ML models running on mobile, wearable, or robotic platforms

MS or PhD with substantial applied research experience in a relevant area Ability to clearly communicate technical tradeoffs, risks, and rationale to both technical and non-technical collaborators Demonstrated comfort with ambiguity and a track record of adapting quickly when direction shifts Experience working in a research, incubation, or early-stage exploratory environment Familiarity with on-device or edge ML deployment and its associated constraints Background in robotics, embedded systems, or real-time sensing pipelines Knowledge of practical Bayesian reasoning and methods Experience with physics-based machine learning - including physics-informed neural networks, simulation-to-real transfer, or learned physical models Cross-disciplinary collaboration experience - hardware, software, design, and research

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
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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