Senior ML Engineer, Next-Gen Search & Knowledge

Apple Inc.; Santa Clara, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock programs

Relocation support

Education reimbursement

Medical & dental coverage

Discounted products

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Santa Clara, California seeks an experienced Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer to advance search and QA experiences across Apple products. You will design, train, and deploy models powering ranking, retrieval, and knowledge platforms.

Work with product, data science, and infrastructure teams to scale ML systems on vast datasets, influence product direction, and contribute to next-generation search technologies including large language models.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
• 7+ years of industry or academia experience in machine learning, with a focus on search, NLP, or recommender systems
• Strong programming skills in C/C++ or Python, and experience with ML frameworks
• Proficient understanding of search algorithms and familiarity with evaluation metrics for search and information retrieval
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Analyze search retrieval, ranking and relevance requirements, issues and opportunities
• Design, train, and deploy machine learning models to improve search relevance and ranking
• Define evaluation metrics and benchmarks for search quality
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams including: product, design, and data engineering
• Find opportunity and partner with various product teams across the company to apply search technology to new product areas and use cases

Skills

C/C++

Python

ML frameworks

Search algorithms

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science or ML

Advanced degree in CS/ML

Tools

Jax

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

Apple Inc. in Santa Clara, California seeks an experienced Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer to advance search and QA experiences across Apple products. You will design, train, and deploy models powering ranking, retrieval, and knowledge platforms.

Work with product, data science, and infrastructure teams to scale ML systems on vast datasets, influence product direction, and contribute to next-generation search technologies including large language models.