Senior ML Infrastructure Engineer, Proactive

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 184,700 - 324,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Stock programs

Tuition reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Intelligence Platform team.

You will design and build a platform enabling state-of-the-art ML/Generative AI across Apple’s OS ecosystem, impacting hundreds of millions of users. Responsibilities include collaborating on model training, deployment, and serving, designing scalable ML systems, and adapting new model architectures to execution environments.

Qualifications

• Excellent software design, problem solving and debugging skills.
• Background architecting and building data or machine learning platforms.
• Experience building on LLMs or other generative models.
• Proven ability to comprehend, interpret, and apply cutting‑edge research into tangible applications.
• Deep understanding of multi‑threaded programming and synchronization.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with teams across Apple on training, qualifying, deploying, and serving models.
• Designing and refining systems and APIs for Machine Learning and Generative AI.
• Understanding and adapting new model architectures to constraints of their execution environments.
• Working with leadership across Apple to define policy.
• Bringing industry leading research to hundreds of millions of people using Apple products every day.

Skills

Software design

ML platforms

LLMs / Generative models

Multi-threaded programming

Problem solving & debugging

Tools

macOS/iOS development

Job description

Cupertino, California, United States Machine Learning and AI

The Intelligence Platform team empowers clients across Apple’s operating systems with high quality user-centric knowledge and inferences that enable next generation user experiences. We’re a systems engineering team focused on building the platform which enables state of the art technologies like generative AI, graph machine learning, and private learning to be used by hundreds of teams across Apple. This platform plays a critical role in the OS, acting as a central nervous system that is responsible for receiving, processing, responding to, and remembering crucial information. We are looking for an accomplished and driven senior software engineer with a background in designing large systems around Machine Learning, Large Language Models, and Generative AI. Your primary role will be designing and building the platform for teams across Apple used to bring intelligence to their applications and services. Your ideas will power next generation features, and impact hundreds of millions of people worldwide in their daily lives!

Description

As a Senior Engineer on the Intelligence Platform Team, you’ll join a phenomenal team of hardworking engineers and will be entrusted with a range of responsibilities. Your work will include:

• Collaborating with teams across Apple on training, qualifying, deploying, and serving models
• Designing and refining systems and APIs for Machine Learning and Generative AI
• Understanding and adapting new model architectures to constraints of their execution environments
• Working with leadership across Apple to define policy

You will be responsible for bringing industry leading research to hundreds of millions of people using Apple products every day.

Minimum Qualifications

• Excellent software design, problem solving and debugging skills
• Background architecting and building data or machine learning platforms
• Experience building on LLMs or other generative models
• Proven ability to comprehend, interpret, and apply cutting‑edge research into tangible applications
• Deep understanding of multi‑threaded programming and synchronization

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building production feature engineering pipelines
• Experience with distributed data systems
• Experience with macOS/iOS development

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. The base pay range for this role is between $184,700 and $324,800, 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 they voluntarily participate 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
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition
• Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
• Relocation assistance

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

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