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Staff/Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Search & Knowledge Platform

Apple· Information Intelligence / ML & Search
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Hybrid (Seattle)$175k - $308.5kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Staff/Senior ML Engineer developing world-class Search and Q&A experiences at Apple, focusing on large language models, retrieval, ranking, and deployment at scale across Apple products (Siri, Spotlight, Safari, Messages, Lookup, etc.).

Responsibilities

  • Understanding product requirements then translating them into modeling and engineering tasks
  • Analyzing search ranking and relevance requirements, issues, and opportunities
  • Utilizing PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX for training and deploying deep learning models
  • Building ML models for retrieval, relevance ranking, and query understanding

Qualifications

  • MS in Computer Science or related field
  • 10+ years of work experience in machine learning, deep learning or related field
  • 10+ years experience in shipping Search and Q&A technologies and ML systems
  • Excellent programming skills in C++, Python, Scala, and Go
  • Experience delivering tooling and frameworks to evaluate individual components and end-to-end quality
  • Strong analytical skills to systematically identify opportunities to improve search relevance and answer accuracy
  • Strong written and verbal communication with the ability to articulate complex topics
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and teamwork; demonstrated ability to connect and collaborate with others
  • Passion for building phenomenal products and curiosity to learn
  • PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Data Science or related field
  • Strong industry background and experience in search and related technologies (LLMs, Machine Learning, NLP, Information Retrieval, Question Answering)
  • Strong and validated experience of ML development and production systems
  • Experience working with foundation models and LLMs

Skills

Required:Query understandingRetrievalRelevance rankingPyTorchC++Python
Nice to have:TensorFlowJAXScalaGo

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Educational reimbursement including tuition
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation eligibility
  • Stock programs (RSU eligibility)
Last updated Sep 11, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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