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Sr. Machine Learning Engineer

Apple· Machine Learning and AI
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Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA and Seattle, WA)$184.7k - $277.6kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior ML engineer role within the Search Safety team, building and deploying state-of-the-art ML models to detect, demote, and filter harmful or policy-violating content across Apple's search ecosystem. Focus areas include query understanding, adversarial robustness, and multimodal content filtering, impacting products like Siri, Spotlight, Safari, Messages, and Lookup.

Responsibilities

  • Build and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning models to detect, demote, and filter harmful, abusive, or policy-violating content across the search ecosystem.
  • Work at the intersection of Search, NLP, Image, and Trust & Safety to address challenges such as query intent understanding, adversarial evasion, jailbreaking, and multimodal content filtering.
  • Balance safety constraints with search relevance and user engagement by integrating safety signals into search ranking and retrieval pipelines.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of industry related experience in collaborative environments
  • Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX for training and deploying deep learning models
  • Proficient in at least two programming languages such as Python, Go, Java, C/C++
  • BS in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Safety, Computer Vision or related field or equivalent work experience
  • Experience working on content moderation, spam detection, fraud, or Trust & Safety ML teams
  • Experience in red-teaming, adversarial training, or robustness evaluation of ML models
  • MS or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Safety, Computer Vision or related field or equivalent work experience

Skills

Required:Machine Learning

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Educational expense reimbursement including tuition
  • Potential discretionary bonuses or commissions and relocation eligibility
  • Apple shareholder opportunities through stock programs
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (discounted stock purchases)
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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