Machine Learning Engineer - Intelligent Quality Systems

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 150,400 - 277,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Educational reimbursement for advancing career

Employee stock programs

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer for its Intelligent Quality Systems team in Cupertino, California. This role involves building ML-powered solutions to improve software quality at scale, working closely with testing processes and software engineering.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in machine learning, programming, and software engineering, and will contribute to the design and implementation of ML systems that address real-world challenges.

Apple offers competitive base pay, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for growth and development.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with machine learning in academic or professional settings.
• Strong programming and software engineering skills.
• Practical understanding of ML fundamentals, model training, and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Implement and refine ML solutions across the testing lifecycle.
• Rapidly prototype algorithmic approaches to identify promising directions.
• Design and implement data collection and evaluation strategies.

Skills

Machine Learning

Software Engineering

Programming

ML Prototyping

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or related field

Job description

Machine Learning Engineer - Intelligent Quality Systems

Cupertino, California, United States Machine Learning and AI

Our team of applied ML and software engineers builds intelligent systems that help Apple's OS software ship faster and with higher quality. We apply state-of-the-art ML, LLMs, computer vision, retrieval systems, and large-scale data analysis throughout the software lifecycle. If you're excited by using ML to solve real, large-scale problems in software quality, we have challenging and meaningful work to do together.

Description

The Intelligent Quality Systems team designs and builds ML-powered systems that transform how Apple approaches software quality at scale. We work across the testing lifecycle: intelligently selecting which tests are most relevant to a code change, automatically triaging test failures to their root cause, validating UI and audio experiences with vision models, surfacing test coverage gaps from change descriptions and defect history, and building the data platforms that tie it all together. In this role, you'll bring ML ideas to life on real-world, large-scale software systems. You'll prototype and evaluate techniques for problems like change-impact prediction, LLM-powered failure analysis, multimodal UI regression detection, and automated test recommendation. You'll design data collection and evaluation strategies, work with large-scale test result and code change data, and build systems robust enough to operate reliably across one of the world's largest software engineering organizations. You will be a crucial bridge between research ideas and production reality, identifying gaps in data quality, modeling assumptions, and system design before they become issues at scale. You'll succeed here if you enjoy turning ideas into working ML systems, care deeply about measurement and rigorous evaluation, and find it rewarding to see your work directly improve the productivity and quality of software shipped to hundreds of millions of people.

Responsibilities

• Implement and refine ML solutions across the testing lifecycle, test selection, failure triage, visual validation, and test coverage analysis
• Rapidly prototype multiple algorithmic approaches to identify the most promising directions
• Design and implement data collection, labeling, and evaluation strategies for training and measuring ML systems
• Work with large-scale test result and code change data to surface patterns and inform modeling decisions
• Proactively identify research-to-production gaps and technical risks in proposed ML solutions
• Collaborate with applied scientists and software engineers to ship reliable, high-impact ML systems

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with machine learning in academic or professional settings, with demonstrated work on substantial ML projects beyond coursework
• Strong programming and software engineering skills; ability to write clean, maintainable, production-quality code
• Practical understanding of ML fundamentals, model training, evaluation, and debugging, and ability to implement algorithms from papers or specifications
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with NLP, large language models, code understanding, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
• Background in computer vision or multimodal ML
• Experience building or maintaining data pipelines and ML infrastructure at scale
• Familiarity with software testing, CI/CD systems, or developer tooling
• Experience working with large-scale structured or semi-structured data (logs, test results, code diffs)
• Comfort operating in environments where ground truth labels are noisy, ambiguous, or expensive to obtain

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $150,400 and $277,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant

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