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.
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| Retail Finance Analyst - Commercial This role is for a Retail Finance Analyst in Shanghai, focusing on evaluating promotional investments, forecasting business performance, and providing financial insights to support revenue growth and margin optimization. It involves cross-functional collaboration with various retail and finance teams. | — | 0 |
| Sr EMC Design Engineer This role focuses on the design, implementation, and optimization of Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) solutions for Apple products. The engineer will evaluate, design, and optimize EMC solutions, ensuring products meet EMC requirements and regulations. Responsibilities include reviewing mechanical designs, PCB schematics, and layouts for EMC compliance, partnering with vendors, preparing test plans, supervising test execution, analyzing test data, troubleshooting EMC failures, and recommending design changes. The role requires deep subject-matter expertise in EMC, ESD, RF, and/or signal integrity areas, with a strong ability to build relationships with cross-functional partners and EMC Test Engineers. | — |
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| Growth and Transformation Lead This role is a Growth and Transformation Lead for the Apple Store Online team, focusing on evolving the operating model to deliver magical digital shopping experiences and reach more customers globally. The lead will champion a shift to a nimble culture, orchestrate ways of working, and focus on capabilities, mindsets, processes, and collaborative behaviors in partnership with business leaders and the People team. The ideal candidate is a strategic and influential leader passionate about building a high-performance, digital-first culture. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager, App Insights, Services Data Science & Analytics Engineering Manager for App Insights within Apple's Services Data Science & Analytics organization. Leads a team responsible for the full analytics and data engineering stack supporting strategic services businesses, focusing on business intelligence, self-service reporting, ad hoc analysis, data engineering, and regulatory/legal data support. Requires strong technical foundation in SQL, data pipeline development, data modeling, and experience supporting legal/regulatory workflows. Manages a team of engineers and data practitioners, setting technical direction, owning delivery, and ensuring quality and business impact. | — | 0 |
| Finished Goods Distribution Centre - China Central Team Manager This role manages finished goods distribution center operations in China, overseeing 3PL suppliers, inbound/outbound logistics, and ensuring service levels are met. It involves capacity management, cost analysis, and driving operational excellence within the supply chain. | — | 0 |
| App Store Data Scientist Data Scientist role focused on understanding and optimizing transaction and subscription businesses within Apple Services (App Store, Apple Music, etc.). Responsibilities include defining metrics, analyzing large-scale data, developing experimental measurement plans, and using A/B testing and causal modeling to inform business strategy and product improvements. Requires strong SQL, PySpark, and experimental design skills. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Software Engineer - Front End - iCloud Software Engineer for the iCloud Web team, focusing on building and supporting real-time collaboration experiences for iCloud.com and related web properties. Requires strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills, experience with modern frameworks like React, and a focus on performance and customer experience. | — | 0 |
| FP&A Analyst, WW Procurement This role is a Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Analyst focused on Worldwide Procurement for Apple's NPI products. The responsibilities include planning, forecasting, consolidation, reporting, and analysis of product costs and their P&L impact, ownership of financial models, and collaboration with cross-functional business partners. The role requires experience in Finance or Accounting, proficiency in Excel and Tableau, and strong analytical skills. | — | 0 |
| Core Tech Supplier Quality Engineer, Camera Supplier Quality Engineer for Camera module development and mass production, focusing on implementing quality processes, working with suppliers, and ensuring product reliability. The role involves defining specifications, setting up inspection and testing, resolving manufacturing issues, and developing data digitalization systems. | — | 0 |
| Quality Engineer - Heath Software Quality Engineer for Health Software at Apple, focusing on automation, microservices, and ensuring quality for health-related applications. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer, Enterprise Technology Services Site Reliability Engineer for Apple's Identity Management Services team, focusing on designing, building, and supporting critical platform services at scale. Responsibilities include ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance of authentication, authorization, and provisioning services, managing infrastructure, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and driving automation. The role also involves monitoring, incident management, and incorporating ML for anomaly detection and GenAI for alert engineering. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager - Compute Node Software Engineering Manager for Apple's Compute Runtime team, focusing on building and maintaining execution platforms (containers, VMs) for Apple's services. The role involves technical leadership, defining strategy, and managing a team of engineers working on container runtimes, tooling, image distribution, and VM isolation, with a focus on security, privacy, and performance. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager - Cloud Compute Software Engineering Manager for Cloud Compute Software at Apple, leading a team to build and enhance massive clusters for Virtual Machines, Containers, and associated infrastructure to support Apple's services. The role involves defining strategy, leading daily execution, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with partners and customers. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - ASE Data Platform Senior Software Engineer for Apple's Services Engineering Data Platform team, focusing on designing and building scalable, low-latency, fault-tolerant data platforms that process petabytes of data. The role involves architecting and deploying MPP query engines (Trino, StarRocks) and containerized deployments (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm), collaborating with other engineering teams, and driving end-to-end project execution. | — | 0 |
| Tools and Automation Engineer - Trust and Safety This role focuses on software quality assurance, developing test strategies, automation tools, and frameworks for Trust & Safety platforms. It involves testing applications across various domains including operating system frameworks, machine learning, and data platforms, ensuring the Apple ecosystem is safeguarded from fraud and abuse while complying with regulatory standards. | — | 0 |
| Quality Engineer - Mail & Calendar Infrastructure, Enterprise Technology Services Quality Engineer for Mail & Calendar Services at Apple, focusing on ensuring the reliability and correctness of internal communication and scheduling systems through sophisticated automation frameworks and standards compliance. | — | 0 |
| CA-Manager This is a retail store manager position at Apple. The role focuses on leading a team to deliver exceptional customer experiences, driving store performance, and upholding company policies. It involves coaching, recruiting, training, and managing operational strategies within a retail environment. There is no AI/ML component to this role. | — | 0 |
| CA-Manager This is a retail store manager position at Apple. The role focuses on leading and developing a team to deliver exceptional customer experiences, driving store performance, and upholding company policies. It involves customer interaction, team management, recruiting, training, and operational strategy execution. No AI/ML development is involved. | — | 0 |
| Wireless Software Engineer, Wireless Technologies & Ecosystems Software Engineer role focused on developing eSIM features for Apple's cellular products, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS technologies. The role involves designing, developing, and patenting next-generation wireless connectivity solutions to enhance user experience. | — | 0 |
| EMC Design Engineer This role focuses on the design, implementation, and optimization of Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) solutions for Apple products, ensuring compliance with EMC requirements and regulations. Responsibilities include reviewing designs, developing test plans, analyzing results, and collaborating with cross-functional teams and vendors. The role requires expertise in EMC, ESD, RF, and signal integrity, with preferred experience in electromagnetic modeling tools and worldwide EMC regulations. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Program Manager, App Store Developer Experience, Apple Services Engineering Engineering Program Manager for the App Store Developer Experience team at Apple. This role involves leading the delivery of business-critical features for the App Store, collaborating with various internal organizations, and managing the full lifecycle of large, cross-functional projects. The focus is on improving how App Store features are built and executed for the Apple Developer community. | — | 0 |
| WW Education Sales - Carrier Development Manager This role is for a WW Education Sales - Carrier Development Manager at Apple in London. The primary focus is on shaping and executing education-focused route-to-market strategies across the Carrier Channel, driving scalable programs for institutions, students, and educators. The role involves designing education-specific offers, developing value propositions, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and analyzing market performance. It requires significant experience in education development or sales, strong analytical and commercial acumen, and excellent communication skills. Preferred qualifications include experience with partner financing, public sector procurement, and emerging markets. | — | 0 |
| Senior iOS Software Engineer - Proximity, Sensing & Connectivity Senior iOS Software Engineer focused on Proximity, Sensing & Connectivity within Apple's Location and Motion organization. The role involves developing customer experiences using spatially-aware technology, with applications in item finding, device interaction, and safety. Requires strong software development, quantitative reasoning, and communication skills, with experience in C++, Swift, system design, and wireless applications. Familiarity with the entire software development lifecycle from concept to production is expected. | — | 0 |
| Senior Detection Creation Engineer This role focuses on building security detections to protect Apple's systems and services by analyzing attacker behaviors and implementing detection logic in Scala Spark and on-host detection systems. It involves understanding threat landscapes, collaborating with engineering teams, and tuning detections. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Program Manager, Frameworks This role is for an Engineering Program Manager at Apple, focusing on frameworks within the operating systems. The primary responsibility is to partner with software engineers and managers to define, schedule, and track the team's work, as well as manage multi-functional initiatives. The role requires a strong technical understanding of operating systems and experience delivering customer-facing software features from concept to delivery. It is a product-focused role within a mature, general domain, with no direct AI/ML craft involved. | — | 0 |
| Senior Detection Creation Engineer This role focuses on developing security detections to identify and protect against malicious activity across Apple's services and infrastructure. The engineer will analyze attacker behaviors, translate them into observable patterns using various telemetry sources, and implement detection logic in Scala Spark and on-host detection systems. The role involves tuning detections, operationalizing them with security operations teams, and documenting the logic. While not strictly an AI/ML role, it involves analyzing complex data patterns to build security systems. | — | 0 |
| Americas Design Facilitation Lead – Sales & Business Development This role is for a Design Facilitation Lead in Apple's WW Enterprise Sales organization. The primary responsibility is to design and lead immersive workshops and demonstrations for enterprise customers, illustrating the potential of the Apple platform to solve complex business challenges. The role involves collaborating with sales and marketing teams, evangelizing design thinking, and driving strategic decisions with C-suite executives. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - File System Services, Core OS Software Engineer role focused on building and productizing a comprehensive disk space management system for Apple devices. This involves developing empirical algorithms, telemetry systems for data gathering, and tools for analyzing disk usage to optimize storage utilization. The role requires strong programming skills, OS/filesystem knowledge, and collaboration with other engineering teams. | — | 0 |
| Bluetooth Software Performance Engineer, Wireless Technologies & Ecosystems Software Performance Engineer focused on optimizing software design for wireless protocols like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and Thread, involving testing, log analysis, and trade-off analysis on hardware prototypes. Requires experience with wireless sniffers, protocol analyzers, Python, and Matlab for data analysis. Preferred qualifications include experience with power/performance trade-offs, CPU profiling, C/C++, and AI/ML for wireless problems. | — | 0 |
| AIML - Senior Annotation Analyst Team Lead (Hyderabad) Lead a team of Senior Annotation Analysts focused on data annotation for AI/ML purposes, managing operational success, career growth, and cross-functional collaboration. Requires people management experience in a contact center or similar environment, with a focus on coaching, performance management, and driving operational improvements. Preferred qualifications include experience in AIML Data Annotations, Project Management, and Quality Management Systems. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, System Experience Software Engineer for Apple's Siri & Information Intelligence team, focusing on on-device search technologies. The role involves defining and architecting search systems, optimizing for efficiency across Apple products, and collaborating with ML, NLP, and infrastructure teams. Emphasis on software architecture, system design, and user experience, with a requirement for iOS/macOS development experience. | — | 0 |
| SDET Engineer - Maps Core Framework QE This role is for an Automation QE Engineer focused on building and enhancing automation frameworks and automated tests for Apple's Maps Client Framework. The engineer will test libraries and APIs across platforms like iOS and Android, focusing on core components such as map tiles and service requests. The role requires strong programming skills, systems thinking, and the ability to investigate regressions, develop test suites, and own functional areas. It is not an AI/ML-centric role. | — | 0 |
| Sr Software Engineering Manager, UI Rendering Seeking a Sr. Software Engineering Manager to lead the UI Rendering team, responsible for the graphics software foundation across all Apple products. This role involves driving the architecture, design, and implementation of Core Animation's rendering engine, collaborating with design and engineering teams to create cutting-edge visual experiences and leveraging Apple Silicon capabilities. The position requires deep expertise in real-time rendering, computer graphics, and shader development, along with strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills. | — | 0 |
| Data Platform Engineer - Airflow Platform Specialist Seeking an experienced Data Platform Engineer with deep expertise in Apache Airflow to build, scale, and maintain a data orchestration platform. This role focuses on building the infrastructure and tooling for other data engineers, not on building data pipelines themselves. Responsibilities include designing, architecting, and maintaining Airflow infrastructure, customizing core functionality, developing custom operators, building internal frameworks, modifying source code, and contributing to the Airflow open-source community. The role also involves deploying and managing Airflow on Kubernetes, optimizing performance, designing multi-tenancy, building auto-scaling, and architecting high-availability solutions. Additionally, it requires implementing monitoring, alerting, and observability, troubleshooting distributed systems, building self-service capabilities, creating tooling for debugging, and establishing SLAs. Integration with Spark, EMR, Kubernetes, and Hadoop, as well as developing authentication/authorization frameworks and integrating with CI/CD and observability stacks, are key. The role also emphasizes developer experience through documentation, best practices, tooling, and consultation. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Siri Frameworks Software Engineer for Siri Frameworks at Apple, focusing on building next-generation APIs, frameworks, and tools for Siri experiences. Requires strong software design skills, collaboration, and ability to learn new technologies. Primarily a software engineering role with a focus on developer empowerment and platform development within the consumer domain. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Partnerships Lead, Corporate Development This role focuses on driving high-impact strategic partnerships and accelerating innovation within Apple's Corporate Development team. The lead will manage external relationships, collaborate with internal cross-functional teams (engineering, product, operations), and influence the company's long-term strategy through transformative partnerships. Key responsibilities include end-to-end partnership management, negotiating complex agreements, serving as a liaison between partners and internal teams, monitoring performance, and leading high-visibility initiatives in ambiguous environments. | — | 0 |
| Principal Technical Strategist — Wallet, Payments, and Commerce Engineering This role is for a Principal Technical Strategist in the Wallet, Payments, and Commerce Engineering organization at Apple. The individual will own strategic problems end-to-end, requiring deep technical understanding, strong ownership, and execution skills. Responsibilities include identifying challenges, building conviction, driving outcomes, structuring ambiguous problems, partnering with leadership, and influencing outcomes across teams. The role is hands-on and embedded within engineering, not advisory. Minimum qualifications include proven ability to operate independently on ambiguous problems, exceptional learning velocity, strong analytical rigor, experience embedded with engineering, influencing senior stakeholders, and excellent communication skills. Preferred qualifications include background in payments, digital wallets, financial services, or commerce platforms, and technical fluency. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Watch Software Software Engineer for Apple Watch Messages team, focusing on building and optimizing features like Voice Dictation, Emoji Tapbacks, and Text Effects for a highly constrained device. Requires strong Swift/Objective-C skills and experience in system architecture, performance optimization, and cross-functional collaboration. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Data Solutions & Initiatives Senior Software Engineer role focused on building scalable, resilient cloud-based software solutions for data exploration, analytics, and reporting within Apple's business operations. The role involves leading technical direction, developing and maintaining software, collaborating with cross-functional partners, and mentoring engineers. | — | 0 |
| Sr Software Engineer, Proactive This role focuses on defining and implementing the architecture of on-device search technologies for Apple products, working with ML and NLP teams, and optimizing for efficiency and privacy. It requires strong software architecture and system design skills, with a focus on mobile experiences and cross-functional collaboration. | — | 0 |
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