Machine Learning Engineer, Foundation Model Services

Apple; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple’s Foundation Model Services team builds the frameworks, services, and tools that run Apple's largest foundation models in production. You’ll work with product teams to deploy real-time model serving, and you’ll partner with researchers to prototype inference for state-of-the-art architectures.

You will create tooling to understand bottlenecks across hardware and use cases. Expect to write high-quality code, move quickly in a fast-evolving field, and grow your impact as the system scales to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in CS or related field.
• 2+ years building and shipping production software or ML systems.
• Proficiency in Go or Python.
• Experience deploying and operating services on cloud platforms using containers and Kubernetes/Docker.
• 5+ years of experience in ML technologies (LLMs, NLP, IR, statistics).
• Experience building or operating high-throughput, low-latency services.
• Strong communication and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product teams to deliver production-grade model serving in real time.
• Prototype and implement inference for cutting-edge model architectures with researchers.
• Build tools to diagnose performance bottlenecks across hardware and use-cases.

Skills

Go

Python

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM

DeepSpeed

Job description

Summary

Do you think differently? Are you eager to break the status quo, bold and ambitious, unafraid to take risks, and passionate about building best-in‑class technology? If so, there's no better place to do it than Apple. The Foundation Model Services team builds the frameworks, services, and tools that run Apple's largest foundation models in production. Our infrastructure powers intelligent experiences across products people use every day — Search, Music, TV, the App Store, Messages, Photos, Spotlight, Safari, Siri, and more — serving millions of queries at incredibly low latency while drawing every ounce of performance from our hardware. Join us and you'll help bring intelligence to billions of users around the world, working on optimizing and serving large language, vision, and speech models at Apple's scale.

Description

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.

Minimum 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Nvidia TensorRT-LLM, vLLLM, DeepSpeed, Nvidia Triton Server etc.