Apple

Senior / Staff Machine Learning Engineer

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

Qualifications

  • Strong machine learning foundation with practical end-to-end workflow experience.
  • Expertise in large-scale distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with modern generative techniques like transformers and diffusion.
  • Proven ability in real-world data and machine learning infrastructure deployment.
  • Comfortable with model optimization and scalable inference preparation.
  • Extensive programming skills in Java, Python, or Go.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work in ambiguous environments.
  • Relevant degree or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

  • Enable machine learning engineers and researchers with data systems and compute resources.
  • Build and run large-scale distributed systems for machine learning.
  • Optimize workflows and infrastructure for generative AI applications.
  • Oversee deployment and troubleshooting of production environments.
  • Design and maintain scalable systems that are user-friendly.

Benefits

  • Collaboration with top-tier machine learning professionals.
  • Opportunities for cutting-edge research and development in AI.
  • Access to advanced technology and tools in a dynamic work environment.
Full Job Description
Description

The Apple Cloud AI Platform team enables Apple's next generation of intelligent products by giving Apple's ML engineers and researchers the data systems and large-scale compute they need to build and ship models at Apple's bar for quality and privacy.

Minimum Qualifications

Strong foundation in machine learning, with hands-on experience across the end-to-end ML workflow - including data preparation, pipeline development, experimentation, evaluation, and deployment

Expertise in building and running large scale distributed systems

Familiarity with modern generative techniques (e.g. transformers, diffusion, retrieval-augmented generation)

Proven experience building and delivering data and machine learning infrastructure in real-world production environments

Familiarity with fine-tuning workflows, model optimization, and preparing models for scalable inference

Familiarity with generative AI and its applications in accelerating and enhancing machine learning workflows

Experience configuring, deploying and troubleshooting large scale production environments

Experience in designing, building, and maintaining scalable, highly available systems that prioritize ease of use

Extensive programming experience in Java, Python or Go

Strong collaboration and communication (verbal and written) skills

Comfortable navigating ambiguity and evolving technical landscapes, especially in fast-moving areas

B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in any of the below is preferred:

Proficiency with one or more modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow), particularly the data loading and dataset access layer

Columnar and lakehouse formats: Parquet, Iceberg, Delta, or Lance

Distributed data loading frameworks for ML: Ray Data, NVIDIA DALI, WebDataset, or Mosaic StreamingDataset

Performance engineering for I/O-bound workloads - Arrow, zero-copy, memory mapping, async I/O

High-throughput object storage access patterns at GPU scale

Data lineage and governance systems (DataHub, OpenLineage, Unity Catalog, or equivalent)

Contributions to or operational experience with Spark, Daft, Polars, or DuckDB internals

Containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)

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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Learn more about Apple
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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