Apple

ML Engineer - Creator Studio

Apple$120K — $145K *
Cary, NC 27513In-Person
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in developing and shipping reliable software or equivalent experience.
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs, foundation models, or multimodal ML applied to real projects.
  • Strong intuition for experimental design and familiarity with statistical techniques.
  • Solid product sense with ability to evaluate user experience beyond technical capabilities.
  • Effective communication skills to interact with both technical and non-technical partners.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate machine learning capabilities into creative applications.
  • Transform raw model capabilities into user-friendly features that enhance creative processes.
  • Evaluate and refine models through experimentation and user feedback to improve their practicality for projects.
  • Design tools that measure the impact of machine learning on creative outcomes and user experience.
  • Balance assistance and creator autonomy to create effective collaborative environments.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to influence product design and impact a wide array of creative applications.
  • Work in a dynamic team focused on innovation in the creative technology space.
  • Collaborative environment with a mix of technical and design professionals.
  • Potential exposure to various Apple creative applications, allowing for diverse learning opportunities.
Full Job Description
Creator Studio is building agentic intelligence inside Apple's professional creative apps. We aim for machine intelligence to assist and enhance creators' intent and vision, complementing creators rather than replacing it. This team has unusual leverage: our work spans many apps, and getting a capability right lifts a whole family of professional creative tools at once.

The team is established and growing. We're looking for ML engineers who want to define the product. That means less time on models in isolation and more on the experiences they make possible, working next to the designers, quality teams, app teams, and engineers who own the workflows.

Description

You work where a frontier model meets the real depth of a professional creative app. The job is to make that meeting useful. A model's raw capability is not yet a feature, and turning it into something that helps inside a real project and holds up well enough to ship is most of what you'll do. Creative work is open-ended. That makes it hard to do well, and hard to measure. So you'll spend as much time on evaluation, prompting, and the tools and skills a model reaches for as on the models themselves.

The best creative software makes someone more capable while leaving them in charge. That balance is the hard part. The assistant should help a person move faster and push an idea further, with the craft still theirs, and getting it right is a product question as much as a modeling one. It sits at the center of this role.

Minimum Qualifications

3+ years developing and shipping reliable, maintainable, testable code, or equivalent demonstrated experience.

Hands-on experience applying LLMs / foundation models or multimodal ML to real products or projects, e.g. prompting, fine-tuning, retrieval, evaluation, or agentic systems.

Strong intuition for experimental design and a repertoire of statistical techniques to measure genuine effects from noise.

A strong product sense: the judgment to ask not only "can the model do this?" but "is this the right experience?"

Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building agentic systems, LLM tool-use / function-calling, or evaluation harnesses.

Deep, hands-on experience as a professional or power user of creative tools - DAWs, NLEs, image editors, office productivity apps, or design suites. You know these workflows from the inside, and you have a point of view about what helps a creator and what gets in the way. Experience with Apple's own creative apps is not required.

We welcome non-traditional backgrounds: demonstrated product judgment and creative-domain expertise can matter as much as a conventional Computer Science or ML resume.

Strong programming skills in Python and experience with deep-learning toolkits like PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.

Experience optimizing models and algorithms to run efficiently on resource-constrained / on-device platforms such as Core ML.

Experience with Swift and iOS/macOS development.

A record of publications or patents in relevant areas.

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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