Senior ML Systems Engineer - Video AI & Inference

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

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California is seeking a research engineer to design, scale, and harden ML-based video systems powering Apple products.

You will build training infrastructure, data pipelines, and deployment workflows across the ML lifecycle, solving efficiency, performance, and reliability challenges. The role requires strong engineering and analytical skills, with extensive experience leading ML system design and production deployments.

Qualifications

• BS and 10+ years of hands-on industry experience building production ML systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and scale ML systems: training infrastructure, data ingestion and curation pipelines, power and performance optimization for inference, ML model development
• Collaborate closely with team members and cross-functional teams to achieve quality, throughput, computational requirements, and robustness towards shipping the technology
• Communicate: demonstrate the technology, present to leadership, share progress with colleagues, and so on

Skills

Python

C++

PyTorch

CUDA

GPU kernel optimization

Computer architecture

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Education

Bachelor's degree

MS in ML systems

Tools

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Job description

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California is seeking a research engineer to design, scale, and harden ML-based video systems powering Apple products.

You will build training infrastructure, data pipelines, and deployment workflows across the ML lifecycle, solving efficiency, performance, and reliability challenges. The role requires strong engineering and analytical skills, with extensive experience leading ML system design and production deployments.