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AIML - Machine Learning Engineer, Visual Intelligence Technology

Apple· Visual Intelligence Technology
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Hybrid (Seattle, WA), Hybrid (Cupertino, CA), Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA)$175k - $308.5kfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Machine learning engineer role focused on building and evaluating large-scale models for visual understanding, visual search, and multimodal AI in Apple's Visual Intelligence Technology team. Involves designing training pipelines, leading a team, and developing domain-specific LLMs for Apple AI-powered products, with applied research to production-ready technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Explore how large-scale models can understand and reason about complex visual scenes, design and build large-scale training pipelines, and perform experiments at scales.
  • Work with researchers and data scientists to develop, fine-tune, and evaluate domain specific LLMs for various tasks and applications in Apple’s AI powered products.
  • Conduct applied research to transfer groundbreaking research in generative AI to production ready technologies.
  • Lead a team to ship software to users (tech lead experience)

Qualifications

  • MS or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Data Science or related field
  • 5+ years of experience in machine learning, deep learning, information retrieval, natural language processing or data mining
  • Experience being a tech lead, and has been successfully leading a team to ship software to users
  • Excellent knowledge and good practical skills in designing ML platforms, architectures or algorithms
  • Strong interpersonal skills able to work independently as well as in a team
  • 3+ years of experience of prompt engineering, fine-tuning, evaluating, and developing data collection/annotation/management tooling for LLMs
  • Experience with relevant deep learning software packages (Keras, Tensorflow, PyTorch…)

Skills

Required:prompt engineeringfine-tuningdeep learningML platform designleadership

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • a range of discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation (role may be eligible)
  • Apple shareholder programs via stock options/RSUs
  • employee stock purchase plan
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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