Applied Machine Learning Engineer

Apple India Pvt Ltd; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple India Pvt Ltd is seeking an Applied Machine Learning Engineer within Apple Intelligence in Bengaluru. You will build and deploy generative AI models, work with ML and software engineers, and own components across the end-to-end ML pipeline, from data preprocessing to deployment, ensuring scalable and robust systems for real-world use across diverse markets.

The role emphasizes strong coding, ML engineering rigor, and the ability to adapt to evolving platforms and frameworks while

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on ML experience building production-grade ML workflows.
• Experience integrating models into production pipelines across preprocessing, evaluation and deployment.
• Strong debugging and code-quality discipline with maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Apply and integrate generative modeling techniques into production systems.
• Own components across the pipeline from data preprocessing to evaluation and deployment.
• Ensure systems are culturally and linguistically adaptable for diverse markets.
• Demonstrate strong debugging, performance optimization, and systems thinking.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Swift

Software engineering

Generative AI tools

Debugging

Systems thinking

NLP

RAG architectures

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Applied Machine Learning Engineer, Apple Intelligence Summary Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build or service we create, we deliver is the result of us making each other's ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It's the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you'll do more than join something - you'll add something.

Description

As part of Apple Intelligence, you'll bring impact to billions of users through your applied ML skills, engineering rigor, and programming expertise. You will work alongside a dedicated team of ML and software engineers, applying and integrating generative modeling techniques into production systems. Our team focuses on generative technologies for key international markets, and you'll help own components across the pipeline, from data preprocessing to evaluation and deployment, ensuring our systems are culturally and linguistically adaptable across a range of local experiences. You are passionate about coding and software development lifecycle methodologies, with a strong focus on debugging and performance. The specific platforms, frameworks, and components will change over time, so we're looking for someone who can transition smoothly across them and bring strong evaluation and systems engineering fundamentals to whatever the team needs next. If you're an engineer with strong applied ML who enjoys building generative AI systems that reach real users at scale, this is a great opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience staging, provisioning, or controlling test or evaluation environments to produce repeatable, deterministic conditions
• Experience evaluating ML, LLM or agent-based systems, including familiarity with metrics, scoring methodology, or trajectory and outcome analysis
• Experience building, maintaining, or operating production-grade AI agents at scale - reliable, scalable, and safe for real-world use - iterating based on user feedback and usage data.
• Good exposure to deep learning libraries such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.
• Background in developer tools, internal platforms, or productivity engineering.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a drive to focus on what matters most.
• Results-oriented, with a desire to work in a fast-paced environment and a commitment to excellence.
• Ability to communicate effectively (written & verbal) - including sharing knowledge and elevating quality across the team - and attend to detail without losing sight of the bigger picture.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on ML experience building harnesses and integrating models into production workflows, using Python plus one or more of C/C++/Objective-C/Swift, on a strong software engineering foundation (OS fundamentals, OOPS).
• Proven hands-on IC coder - this role is technical, not architectural - who ships clean, well-tested, maintainable code
• Strong practical use of generative-AI coding tools, specifically Claude/Cursor/Codex
• Strong debugging, systems-thinking, and problem-solving skills, demonstrated through code reviews, architectural discussions, and production troubleshooting.
• Applied experience across NLP (tokenization, language modeling, decoding, classification), modern agentic and multi-agent systems, and RAG architectures.