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Machine Learning Engineer, Foundation Model Services

Apple· Machine Learning and AI
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Hybrid (Santa Clara, California), Hybrid (Seattle, Washington)$184.7k - $324.8kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Role focused on building and operating production-grade infrastructure and services for Apple's largest foundation models, enabling real-time inference and serving large language, vision, and speech models at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with product teams to build production-grade solutions that launch models serving customers in real time.
  • Partner with foundation model researchers to prototype and develop inference for cutting-edge model architectures, and build tools that help us understand and remove performance bottlenecks across different hardware and use cases.
  • Write high-quality code, learn quickly in a fast-moving field, and grow your impact as you take on larger pieces of the system.

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of industry experience building and shipping production software and/or machine learning systems.
  • Proficiency in a modern programming language such as Go or Python.
  • Experience deploying and operating services on a cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP, or equivalent) using containers and Kubernetes/Docker.
  • 5 year+ industry experience in ML technologies (LLMs, Machine Learning, NLP, Information Retrieval, Statistics).
  • Experience building or operating high-throughput, low-latency services.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to partner across research and product teams.
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • Familiarity with Nvidia TensorRT-LLM, vLLLM, DeepSpeed, Nvidia Triton Server etc.

Skills

Required:Go or PythonCloud platformsHigh-throughput, low-latency servicesML technologiesCommunication and collaboration

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • a range of discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation eligibility
  • Apple employee stock programs (discretionary RSU awards, Employee Stock Purchase Plan)
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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