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Machine Learning Engineer - Proactive

Apple· Machine Learning and AI
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Cupertino, CA$150.4k - $277.6kfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior Machine Learning Engineer role focused on building intelligent search and AI experiences that understand user intent, context, and personal information while preserving privacy. Work includes large language models, semantic retrieval, ranking models, and on-device efficient deployment of foundation models.

Responsibilities

  • Work with semantic retrieval systems and ranking models to design, optimize, and deploy relevant, personalized, and context-aware experiences across Apple's ecosystem.
  • Build semantic retrieval, embedding, reranking, and retrieval-augmented generation systems that improve search quality and AI-powered experiences.
  • Improve the underlying software infrastructure and optimize solutions for low-latency inference.
  • Partner with engineers, researchers, product managers, and designers to bring AI capabilities from research into production, driving technical strategy and exploring new applications of foundation models, multimodal AI, agentic retrieval, and personalized intelligence.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
  • Background in machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, information retrieval, search, recommender systems, or generative AI.
  • Experience with semantic retrieval, embedding models, reranking, or retrieval-augmented generation systems.
  • Programming skills in Python and/or C/C++, with experience building production-quality software using modern machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.

Skills

Required:Semantic retrievalOn-device deploymentProduction software developmentCollaboration
Nice to have:Model optimizationExperimentation

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 possible
  • relocation assistance
  • Apple stock programs and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) eligibility
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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