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Machine Learning Engineer, Apple Search & Knowledge Platforms

Apple· Apple Knowledge Quality Team
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Santa Clara, CA, Seattle, WA$142.3k - $263.3kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Machine Learning engineer role focused on large-scale data management, ML systems over graph data, and knowledge extraction to power knowledge QA for Siri, Spotlight, and related features. Work on state-of-the-art Gen AI components at scale and contribute to a platform handling petabytes of data and high query throughput.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop features for a platform that touches upon large-scale data management, machine-learning systems over graph data, and knowledge extraction over semi-structured and unstructured data feeds.
  • Build state-of-the-art Gen AI components at scale to power question answering for Siri.
  • Work with high performance computing environments and large data pipelines to support features in Siri and Spotlight.

Qualifications

  • PhD or Graduate degree with research/work experience in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Data Science or related field
  • Experience in Natural Language Processing including RAG based Generative AI and transformer architecture
  • Excellent programming skills in Python, Scala, and Go
  • Prior experience with Machine Learning Frameworks such as PyTorch and Tensorflow
  • Working experience with NLP and Large Language Models
  • Experience working with large data sets and pipelines, ideally using the Apache software stack (e.g. Spark)
  • Broad knowledge of computer science and systems; ability to quickly learn new domains
  • Excellent problem-solving and analytic skills
  • Good interpersonal skills and teamwork
  • Passion for building phenomenal products and curiosity to learn

Skills

Required:PythonScalaGoPyTorchNLPLarge Language Models
Nice to have:TensorFlow

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation eligibility
  • employee stock programs including discretionary RSUs and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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