Apple has 261 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles are focused on agents, accounting for 24% of the total, followed by application (22%) and serving infrastructure (21%). Engineering is the primary function for these positions, with the United States being the dominant hiring country. Frequent tech tags include model serving, inference infrastructure, and LLM observability. Over the last 30 days, Apple has posted 111 new AI roles, representing a 61% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 171 active AI roles, down 37% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $120k–$487k (avg $235k).
Apple currently has 233 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Machine Learning Engineer (4), AIML - Sr Data Scientist, Evaluation (2), Advanced Manufacturing Engineer(iPhone) - Smart Manufacturing (2), Machine Learning Engineer, Apple Services Engineering (2), Machine Learning Software Engineer (2). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Apple's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (30%), application (21%), serving infrastructure (14%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Apple is hiring AI talent in: United States (182 roles), China (17 roles), India (10 roles), United Kingdom (7 roles).
Job postings at Apple most frequently mention: Machine Learning, Python, Data Science, Large Language Models (LLMs), Statistics.
In the past 30 days, Apple has posted 80 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| US-Senior Manager This is a Senior Manager role in Apple Retail, focused on leading a team, driving customer interactions, achieving business goals, and upholding company policies. It involves recruiting, training, and developing team members, as well as managing operational strategy for assigned functional areas. The role requires leadership experience in retail or sales and emphasizes creating an inclusive and positive environment. | — | 0 |
| Front End SW Engineer - iOS / Web - iCloud Software Engineer for iCloud Mail, Calendar & Contacts client development across iOS, macOS, and Web. Focus on user interfaces, client frameworks, performance, and power efficiency. Requires strong programming fundamentals and experience with system-level engineering. | — | 0 |
| US-Manager This is a retail management role at Apple, focusing on leading a team to deliver exceptional customer experiences, drive store performance, and uphold company policies. It involves coaching, recruiting, training, and ensuring operational strategies are executed within assigned areas. The role emphasizes inclusivity, diversity, and adherence to Apple's values. |
| — |
| 0 |
| CA-Senior Manager Senior Manager role in Apple Retail focused on leading a team, driving customer interactions, achieving performance goals, and supporting business strategies. This role involves leadership, team development, operational execution, and maintaining company policies within a retail environment. | — | 0 |
| Regional Lead - Reseller Operations This role is for a Regional Lead in Reseller Operations at Apple, focusing on leading a team, managing partner engagement, driving operational excellence, and collaborating cross-functionally to support sales goals and product fulfillment in diverse markets. It involves supply chain management, demand forecasting, and new product introduction. | — | 0 |
| Project Manager - OEM Business Process Re-engineering Project Manager for Apple's OEM Business Process Re-engineering team, focusing on supply chain optimization, process improvement, and driving complex changes across contract manufacturers. Requires strong project management, cross-functional collaboration, and ability to convert ambiguity into execution plans. | — | 0 |
| iPad Hardware System EE Seeking an iPad Hardware System EE in Shenzhen, China, to own entire products from concept to ship. Responsibilities include electrical design, bringup, debug, validation, and factory build support, collaborating with various engineering teams. Requires BS/MS EE with 3-5+ years experience, strong EE fundamentals, and experience in circuit design, simulation, schematic capture, PCB layout, and lab equipment. | — | 0 |
| Real Estate Specialist, Global Retail Real Estate This role is for a Real Estate Specialist at Apple, focusing on operational and strategic planning for global retail real estate. The specialist will manage planning infrastructure, analytical frameworks, and cross-functional coordination, translating complex data into executive-ready outputs. Key responsibilities include managing planning cycles (Fleet Review, Capital Plan, Five-Year Roadmap), coordinating project approval meetings, tracking cross-functional dependencies, and supporting team meetings and leadership off-sites. The role requires strong analytical, communication, and program management skills, with experience in real estate, strategy, finance, or program management. | — | 0 |
| Product Designer, Media Partner Tools Product Designer for Media Partner Tools at Apple, focusing on user experience for music artists, developers, creators, podcasters, authors, and video providers to manage their content across Apple Services. Responsibilities include creating high-fidelity designs, prototypes, and documentation for responsive websites and iOS applications, collaborating with product managers and engineers. | — | 0 |
| Product Design Producer, Music & Podcasts Product Design Producer for Apple Music and Apple Podcasts, responsible for leading design projects from conception to delivery, managing dependencies, risks, and cross-functional partnerships. | — | 0 |
| US-Operations Lead This role is an Operations Lead in Apple Retail, focusing on maintaining operational readiness and excellence within a store. Responsibilities include supporting the leadership team, ensuring inventory and presentation standards, managing operational goals, and fostering a positive team environment. It is not directly involved in AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Home Reliability Engineer This role focuses on ensuring and improving the durability and reliability of home hardware products by developing and implementing reliability tests, quantifying risk, supporting failure analysis, and advising on product lifecycle decisions. It involves partnering with engineering teams, exploring new technologies, and understanding customer usage. | — | 0 |
| Technical Program Manager, Depth Technical Program Manager role focused on developing and delivering core technologies for new products, working with suppliers and internal teams to ensure high-quality, high-volume manufacturing of optical modules. Responsibilities include managing factory setup, driving production metrics, analyzing data, and identifying/mitigating technical risks. | — | 0 |
| Software Tools and Automation Engineer - Apple Services Engineering Seeking a Mid-level Data Test Automation Engineer to join the Apple Services Analytics Engineering QA team. This role focuses on ensuring the quality and integrity of customer experience data by developing automated testing tools for near real-time (NRT) and batch data pipeline systems. Requires strong experience in Big Data technologies, Python/Java/Scala, and data pipeline testing. | — | 0 |
| Quality Program Manager Quality Program Manager at Apple responsible for ensuring the quality of hardware and software products throughout the development lifecycle, coordinating cross-functional teams, and driving rigorous testing processes to meet customer expectations. | — | 0 |
| Security Developer Tools Engineer (Static Analysis), Languages & Runtimes Develop security and bug-finding tools using static program analysis, compilers, and program analysis techniques to improve software security and reliability within the Apple ecosystem. This role involves end-to-end engineering, collaboration with OS and security teams, and contributions to the Clang/LLVM open-source community. | — | 0 |
| Marketing Analyst - Paid Media Marketing Analyst role focused on paid digital advertising for Apple's services, involving campaign optimization, performance analysis, and reporting. Requires strong analytical skills in SQL, Python/R, and Tableau, with expertise in digital media metrics, attribution, and A/B testing. | — | 0 |
| US-Manager This is a retail management role focused on leading a team to deliver exceptional customer experiences, drive business priorities, and achieve store performance goals. The role involves coaching, developing, and retaining a diverse team, participating in customer interactions, and upholding company policies. It is not directly involved in AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineering Manager - Client Leader Lead a team responsible for on-device components and capabilities for worldwide Ad delivery within Apple's advertising solutions group. This role involves overseeing software engineering from design to maintenance, with a focus on strategic vision and operational excellence. The team supports app discovery, advertiser promotion, and sponsor connections across Apple platforms. | — | 0 |
| Product Marketing Manager, iPad & Mac Product Marketing Manager for iPad & Mac in Türkiye, responsible for driving adoption, go-to-market success, and alignment across functional partners. This role involves launching products, sustaining momentum, positioning products, and driving business growth by leveraging product and market insights to inform decisions. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineering Manager (SRE) - Apple Services Engineering, Dublin Seeking a Software Engineering Manager for Apple Services Engineering (ASE) in Dublin to lead a team responsible for building and enhancing massive clusters hosting Virtual Machines, Containers, and associated infrastructure. The role involves managing core components of Virtualization and Containerization technologies, ensuring global scale, high availability, and seamless uptime for Apple's services. | — | 0 |
| Live Stream Content Delivery Manager This role is responsible for the creative execution and production delivery of Apple's livestream programming, acting as a central hub between creative, production, and operational teams to ensure scripts and briefs are translated into live, broadcast-ready experiences. The role requires a seasoned producer with experience in large-scale creative agency environments, managing complex stakeholder ecosystems, and delivering high-profile creative work across various production formats, with a focus on live or broadcast content. | — | 0 |
| Live Streaming Project Manager Project Manager for Apple's Live Streaming program within the Apple Store Online team, focusing on operational planning and cross-functional project delivery to enhance the customer digital experience. | — | 0 |
| Content Strategist Content Strategist for Apple Store Online team in Shanghai, focusing on livestream commerce and content innovation to create new shopping experiences and evolve the customer journey for China's digital consumer. This role involves end-to-end planning and execution of integrated content and campaign strategies, defining strategic priorities, accelerating business growth, and reimagining how consumers discover and purchase through content. | — | 0 |
| SW Dev Engineer -ASE -Backend Software Engineer role on Apple's iCloud Mail team, focusing on building and maintaining cutting-edge infrastructure for a large-scale production Mail service. Requires strong C/C++/Java, distributed systems, and database experience. | — | 0 |
| US-Manager This is a retail management position at Apple, focused on leading a team to deliver exceptional customer experiences, drive store performance, and uphold company policies. It involves coaching, recruiting, training, and developing team members, as well as managing operational strategies within assigned areas of the store. The role emphasizes inclusive leadership and adherence to Apple's values. | — | 0 |
| Module NPI Operations Program Manager Program Manager for New Product Introduction (NPI) Operations at Apple, focusing on supporting product development, factory bring-up, and launch within the Operations sphere. The role involves supply chain design, schedule, cost, quality, and order cycle time goals, engagement with manufacturing partners, and collaboration with various internal functions. Requires strong program management, relationship building, and communication skills. | — | 0 |
| US-Manager This is a retail management position at Apple, focusing on leading a team to deliver exceptional customer experiences, drive store performance, and uphold company policies. It involves coaching, developing, and retaining a diverse team, actively participating in customer interactions, and executing operational strategies. The role requires experience in leading others in retail or sales and emphasizes strong decision-making, communication, and conflict resolution skills. | — | 0 |
| US-Senior Manager This is a Senior Manager role in Apple Retail, focusing on leading a team, driving store performance, and ensuring exceptional customer service. The role involves management, team development, operational strategy, and upholding company policies. It is not directly involved in AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| US-Operations Lead This role is for an Operations Lead in Apple Retail, focusing on maintaining operational readiness and excellence within stores. Responsibilities include supporting the Store Leadership team, ensuring team member knowledge and engagement in inventory, presentation, and preservation standards, and driving operational goals to create an exceptional customer experience. The role also involves managing work orders, supply budgets, and ensuring health and safety standards are met. | — | 0 |
| Senior Gaming Platform Engineer Senior Gaming Platform Engineer at Apple, focusing on building and evolving developer-facing technologies for games on Apple platforms. This role involves maintaining and expanding Unity plugins, creating new tooling and frameworks for game engines, and implementing cross-platform bridging and interoperability solutions. The goal is to enable richer gaming experiences by leveraging Apple's unique platform features. | — | 0 |
| US-Senior Manager This is a Senior Manager role in Apple Retail, focused on leading a team, driving customer interactions, achieving performance goals, and supporting business strategies. The role involves leadership, team development, customer service, and operational management within a retail environment. It does not involve direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Communications Operations Strategist This role is for an experienced professional to join Apple's Worldwide Communications team as a strategic partner and operational architect. The individual will design, build, and run the operational systems that enable a world-class communications organization to work at its best, driving planning, execution, and continuous improvement across multiple communications disciplines. Responsibilities include serving as an operational partner, designing team infrastructure, owning program execution, building playbooks, leading change management, developing dashboards, managing project management systems, resolving bottlenecks, and managing vendor relationships. | — | 0 |
| Business Insights Analyst, Apple Store Online This role is for a Business Insights Analyst on the Apple Store Online team, focusing on delivering analytics and supporting business decision-making for Greater China. The analyst will work with cross-functional stakeholders and platform partners to understand business needs, identify data sources, generate insights from platform data, and analyze market intelligence related to pricing, offers, market share, and competitor activity. The goal is to drive commercial growth for Apple Retail by providing data-driven insights into customer behavior and market trends. | — | 0 |
| Legal Counsel - Beijing Legal Counsel role supporting commercial, R&D, marketing, and regulatory matters in Greater China regions, requiring a law degree, 4-8 years PQE, and strong communication skills in Mandarin and English. Experience in TMT, AI, or emerging tech is preferred. | — | 0 |
| CapEx Global Supply Manager (GSM) - Mechanical Enclosures This role is for a Global Supply Manager (GSM) focused on mechanical enclosures, specifically managing the commercial relationship with manufacturing partners, cost negotiations, supply continuity, risk management, and driving operational efficiencies. The role involves optimizing manufacturing processes for enclosure components by managing equipment, tooling, and fixtures, and working closely with cross-functional teams. Key activities include understanding technical aspects of equipment, identifying cost-optimization opportunities, data analysis, running ROI analysis, managing CapEx budgets, and project organization. The role requires a background in supply chain development, sourcing management, or mechanical engineering with experience in manufacturing practices for enclosure components. | — | 0 |
| Metal Frameworks Engineering Manager Engineering Manager for the Production Metal Frameworks team at Apple, focusing on GPU API design and development for Apple's platforms. Requires experience with GPU APIs, systems engineering, and management. | — | 0 |
| Principal Legal Counsel - Litigation, AIML/Online Safety This role is for a Principal Legal Counsel specializing in litigation related to Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Online Safety. The candidate will provide legal support for Apple's products and businesses, manage complex litigation, and advise on emerging issues in AI/ML and online safety, product liability, and consumer protection. The role requires significant experience in consumer class action or mass tort litigation and a strong interest in technology. | — | 0 |
| Human Interface Designer - Instructional Products Human Interface Designer for Instructional Products at Apple, focusing on creating user interfaces and educational experiences to help users understand and utilize Apple products. Responsibilities include concepting, prototyping, and designing user interfaces for educational content, tutorials, and help systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Design Engineer (MDE) - Brittles Manufacturing Design Engineer responsible for developing and qualifying key mechanical manufacturing processes, selecting equipment, and driving engineering issues to resolution for Apple's supply chain. This role involves defining processes, working with suppliers, and leading process development in areas like CNC machining, surface finishing, glass processing, assembly, or painting. | — | 0 |
| Software Development Engineer, Database (OpenSearch), AI & Data Platforms (AiDP) Software Development Engineer to build and contribute to OpenSearch, a search and analytics suite used for observability, log analytics, and real-time monitoring for Apple's critical services. The role involves developing and maintaining OpenSearch solutions, focusing on query parsing, indexing, cluster management, security, scalability, and new feature development to ensure performance, availability, and resilience. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer, iCloud Site Reliability Engineer for Apple Services (iCloud, Photos, Mail, Drive, Backup) focusing on building and supporting highly available, scalable, customer-facing services. Responsibilities include infrastructure design, operation, monitoring, automation, and incident response for large-scale distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Tooling Engineer- Metal Seeking an experienced metal tooling engineer to interface between product design and suppliers, driving development of metal forming tooling and processes. Responsibilities include providing Design for Manufacturing (DFM) input, guiding suppliers in tool design and part manufacturing, enabling robust manufacturing process flow, and optimizing tools and processes through DOEs and builds. | — | 0 |
| Brittles Manufacturing Design Engineer The Brittles Manufacturing Design Engineer role at Apple focuses on developing and optimizing manufacturing processes and equipment for key design features in a high-volume manufacturing environment. Responsibilities include defining processes, selecting equipment, leading development at manufacturing sites, using data for decisions, and working with suppliers and quality engineers. Expertise is required in areas like CNC machining, surface finishing, assembly, or glass processing. | — | 0 |
| Brittles Manufacturing Design Engineer The Brittles Manufacturing Design Engineer role at Apple focuses on developing and optimizing manufacturing processes, selecting and designing equipment, and implementing automation for key design features. This role involves defining processes, leading manufacturing sites during development and ramp, using data for decisions, and working with suppliers and quality engineers. Specializations include CNC machining, surface finishing, assembly, and glass processing. | — | 0 |
| Wi-Fi Software Engineer, Wireless Technologies & Ecosystems Software Engineer role focused on Wi-Fi networking subsystem software for Apple products, involving design, development, optimization, and full software development cycle ownership. Requires C/C++ experience, OS fundamentals, and networking protocol knowledge. Exposure to AI/ML tools is mentioned. | — | 0 |
| Full Stack Development Engineer - Operations RAD BI - 18 Month Contract Full Stack Development Engineer for Operations RAD BI, focusing on delivering automated solutions and business intelligence for the EMEIA supply chain. The role involves end-to-end development of web-based tools on local and cloud platforms, with an "AI First Mindset" and collaboration with AI/ML teams. | — | 0 |
| UI Software Engineer, Camera & Photos UI Software Engineer for Apple's Photos team, focusing on image and video editing features. The role involves building user experiences that leverage computer vision and machine learning, working closely with design and ML teams to deliver features to millions of users. | — | 0 |
| US-Manager This is a retail management role focused on leading a team, driving store performance, and delivering exceptional customer experiences within an Apple Store. The role involves coaching, developing, and retaining a diverse team, managing operational strategies, and upholding company policies. It is not directly involved in AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Design Engineer Lead the selection, implementation, and optimization of iPhone manufacturing processes for mechanical enclosure machining and surface treatment. This involves designing processes, selecting equipment, developing fixtures, and optimizing machining parameters to meet product drawing and cosmetic requirements. The role requires expertise in CNC process development, fixture design, and collaboration with cross-functional teams and suppliers to ensure process capability and readiness for production ramp. | — | 0 |