Senior ML Engineer, Search & Knowledge Platforms

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & dental coverage

Employee stock purchase plan

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Santa Clara, California, is seeking a Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer for the Search & Knowledge Platforms team.

You will work on world‑class search and QA experiences across Apple products, collaborating with product, data science, and infrastructure teams to power features like Siri, Spotlight, and Messages. You will design, train, and deploy models for ranking and retrieval in large-scale systems, define evaluation metrics, and push the boundaries of open-domain

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

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field

Advanced degree in Computer Science, ML, or related field

Tools

Jax

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

Apple Inc. in Santa Clara, California, is seeking a Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer for the Search & Knowledge Platforms team.

You will work on world‑class search and QA experiences across Apple products, collaborating with product, data science, and infrastructure teams to power features like Siri, Spotlight, and Messages. You will design, train, and deploy models for ranking and retrieval in large-scale systems, define evaluation metrics, and push the boundaries of open-domain