Real-Time Multimodal AI/ML Engineer for Vision

Apple Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical and dental cover

Retirement benefits

Discounted products and free services

Education expense reimbursement

Discretionary bonuses or commission

Relocation

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a senior ML/AI software engineer to advance on-device video and audio perception. You will collaborate with Multimodal GenAI researchers to build real-time systems within a production stack and optimize performance for mobile and embedded platforms.

The role requires 5+ years of software experience, strong C/C++ or Swift skills, and a solid math foundation. You will contribute to vision, language and AI features powering future Apple products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related fields.
• 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Strong proficiency in C/C++ or Swift, writing clean and well-structured code.
• Solid mathematical foundation in linear algebra and numerical analysis.
• Experience breaking down large problems and delivering robust solutions.
• Curiosity about new technologies and flexibility to work across different layers of the software stack.

Responsibilities

• Design and drive software architecture for both production systems and internal tools
• Implement and optimize performance-critical algorithms for mobile and embedded platforms
• Developing and integrating agentic workflow frameworks with tool calling components
• Integrate multimodal models with audio, image and video modalities for efficient on-device inference
• Build tooling for visualization, logging, debugging and evaluation
• Integrate real-time perception, 3D representation and animation systems into a broader end-to-end software stack

Skills

5+ years

C/C++/Swift

Math foundation

Problem solving

Curiosity

Education

B.S. in CS/CE/ML

Job description

Apple Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a senior ML/AI software engineer to advance on-device video and audio perception. You will collaborate with Multimodal GenAI researchers to build real-time systems within a production stack and optimize performance for mobile and embedded platforms.

The role requires 5+ years of software experience, strong C/C++ or Swift skills, and a solid math foundation. You will contribute to vision, language and AI features powering future Apple products.