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Machine Learning Engineer

Apple· Music ML team, Apple Services Engineering (Music Personalisation)
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Cupertino, CA$184.7k - $324.8kfull-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Software Engineer role focused on building and improving features and services driving Apple Music personalisation, including data analysis, large-scale offline pipelines, ML model training/inference, and real-time online services for personalised experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Building products and services for millions of users with a focus on great customer experience and privacy
  • Developing complex systems that integrate data from many sources to deliver on-the-fly personalisation with low latency
  • Tuning performance considering both latency and throughput
  • Deploying our systems globally for improved resiliency and end-user experience
  • Collaborating across teams to take new user-facing features from conception to production
  • Working within our team to develop and deploy massive datasets to improve personalised features
  • Prototyping algorithm changes and launching A/B tests to measure changes to personalised products

Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience crafting highly scalable recommendations systems
  • Understanding of concurrency, algorithms and object oriented programming
  • A vision of how to engineer modern ML-driven systems that allow for fast iteration cycles
  • Effective collaboration with researchers to improve recommendation algorithms
  • A vision of how to engineer modern ML-driven pipelines, APIs and services at scale
  • Extensive experience with object-oriented languages such as Java, C++, and Python

Skills

Required:Scalable recommendation systemsConcurrency and algorithmsML-driven system designCollaboration with researchersProgramming languages

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Education reimbursement including tuition
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission possibilities and relocation eligibility
  • Apple shareholder programs via stock ownership opportunities
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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