Machine Learning Engineer
Apple· Machine Learning and AI
Cupertino, California$184.7k - $324.8kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Video-focused ML engineering role building infrastructure, pipelines, systems, and models to power next-generation video technology across Apple products. Involves full ML lifecycle including training infrastructure, performance optimization, data, and production deployment, with collaboration across teams to scale and harden systems for shipping technology.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and scale ML systems: training infrastructure, data ingestion and curation pipelines, power and performance optimization for inference, ML model development
- Collaborate closely with team members and cross-functional teams to achieve quality, throughput, computational requirements, and robustness towards shipping the technology
- Communicate: demonstrate the technology, present to leadership, share progress with colleagues, and so on
Qualifications
- BS and 10+ years of hands-on industry experience building production ML systems, with a proven track record of design/implementation leadership
- Deep familiarity with ML-centric flows and best practices: training procedures, dataloaders, profiling and debugging methodology, data handling, model development, model deployment
- Proficiency in Python, C++, PyTorch
- Familiarity with computer architecture principles
- Proficiency in AI tooling such as Claude and excellent high-level design skills — allowing building robust, modular, clean, and well-tested code
Skills
Required:ML system design and developmentTraining infrastructureData handling and dataloadersModel deployment
Nice to have:CUDA / GPU optimization
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- retirement benefits
- discounted products and free services
- reimbursement for certain educational expenses (tuition)
- discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation (role may be eligible)
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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