Senior ML Engineer — Next‑Gen Search & Q&A Systems

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking a Staff/Senior Machine Learning Engineer to advance Search and Q&A experiences across its products. You will work with NLP, LLMs, and distributed systems to improve query understanding, retrieval, and ranking at scale.

Join a fast-paced, collaborative team responsible for training, fine-tuning, and deploying models, using embeddings and online inference optimization to deliver accurate answers to billions of users.

Qualifications

• MS in Computer Science or related field
• 10+ years of work experience in machine learning, deep learning or related field
• 10+ years experience in shipping Search and Q&A technologies and ML systems
• Excellent programming skills in mainstream programming languages such as C++, Python, Scala, and Go

Skills

C++

Python

Scala

Go

Machine learning

Deep learning

NLP

Information Retrieval

Question Answering

LLMs

Distributed systems

Education

MS in Computer Science or related field

PhD in Computer Science / AI / ML / Information Retrieval / Data Science

Tools

C++

Python

Scala

Go

ML frameworks

Job description

Apple is seeking a Staff/Senior Machine Learning Engineer to advance Search and Q&A experiences across its products. You will work with NLP, LLMs, and distributed systems to improve query understanding, retrieval, and ranking at scale.

Join a fast-paced, collaborative team responsible for training, fine-tuning, and deploying models, using embeddings and online inference optimization to deliver accurate answers to billions of users.