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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sr Software Engineering Manager, AIML Data Operations Engineering Manager for AIML Data Operations at Apple, leading a team that builds software for machine learning data collection and delivery at scale. The role involves technical direction, team leadership, and collaboration with ML researchers and product teams. | Data | 5 |
| Senior Content Curator, Apple Creator Studio (Product, Design & Marketing) This role is for a Senior Content Curator at Apple Creator Studio, focusing on defining and evolving the visual and editorial future of content across global storefronts. The role involves establishing visual direction, shaping editorial vision, and developing asset strategy, operating at the intersection of creative leadership and scalable systems. It requires anticipating shifts in the visual landscape, translating signals into editorial points of view, and building exceptional photo and video content. The role will also leverage generative AI tools and workflows for asset creation, curation, prompting, and evaluation, while staying current on generative AI trends and ethics. |
| — |
| 5 |
| Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role at Apple focusing on defining, implementing, and deploying intelligent systems. Requires strong software engineering and machine learning expertise, experience with large-scale distributed systems, cloud platforms, and containerization. The role involves guiding complex projects from concept to adoption and architecting/deploying intelligent systems. | Serve | 5 |
| Software Image Quality Engineer - Creativity Apps Software Image Quality Integrity Engineer for Creativity Apps at Apple, focusing on photos and video editing tools. Requires expertise in image/video quality evaluation, computational photography, and on-device machine learning, with a strong QA background. | Ship | 5 |
| Program Manager, Distribution Center Operations Program Manager for global Distribution Center operations, focusing on driving performance, priorities, and analytical direction. The role involves building analytics frameworks, identifying operational trends, and translating data into actionable insights and executive-level narratives. It requires strong analytical, storytelling, and cross-functional collaboration skills within a fast-moving, undefined environment. | — | 5 |
| Sr. Software Engineering Manager, Pricing-Subscriptions & Infrastructure Engineering Manager to lead a team modernizing a platform for pricing and subscriptions across Apple services. The role involves technical and people leadership, focusing on making the platform AI-ready and identifying opportunities for AI/ML integration. Requires expertise in JVM technologies and experience modernizing large-scale systems. | — | 5 |
| SW User Experience Automation QE This role focuses on designing and developing AI-driven automation frameworks to evaluate end-to-end user experiences across Apple platforms, aiming to assess both functional correctness and experiential quality. It involves architecting scalable test infrastructure, translating manual tester expertise into automated scenarios, and integrating emerging technologies like ML, computer vision, and robotics to enhance automation coverage and fidelity. The ultimate goal is to ship software that delights users by providing continuous quality signals that influence product readiness and strategic decisions. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Development Engineer in Test, Sensing & Connectivity Software Development Engineer in Test for the CoreMotion team, focusing on testing and validating CoreMotion features. Responsibilities include building and scaling ML infrastructure, data pipelines, and analytics platforms for model training and evaluation, designing user studies, developing automated test frameworks, and implementing telemetry systems. Requires experience in sensor fusion, signal processing, or machine learning. | Data | 5 |
| Technical Program Manager (AME) This role is for a Technical Program Manager in manufacturing equipment development and maintenance. While the core function is not AI development, there's a clear emphasis on exploring and implementing ML/AI technologies to improve manufacturing processes, predict issues, and enhance cost-efficiency. The role involves working with cross-functional teams, vendors, and applying expertise in assembly, failure analysis, and process improvement, with a stated advantage for those who can plan and implement ML solutions for smart factories. | Serve | 5 |
| Software Engineer - Trust & Safety Solutions Engineer Software Engineer role focused on building and supporting Trust & Safety risking systems at Apple scale, involving fraud and abuse detection. The role emphasizes developing high-volume, low-latency systems for real-time decision-making, working with distributed systems, and integrating solutions across various contexts (real-time, batch). It's a software engineering position involving coding, design, architecture, tuning, debugging, and production support, with an interest in ML and internal system workings. | — | 5 |
| Data Products & Metrics Foundation Lead - Wallet, Payments & Commerce This role focuses on architecting the future of data consumption for Apple's Wallet, Payments & Commerce, specifically shaping the metrics foundation, headless BI, and AI-driven insights strategy. The goal is to drive alignment, standards, and long-term architecture for data modeling, access, and consumption, enabling AI-assisted insights and LLM-powered analytics. | Ship | 5 |
| Data Product Engineering Lead - Wallet, Payments & Commerce Seeking a Data Product Engineering Lead to build and maintain scalable analytical data products and architectures for Apple's Payments & Commerce business. This role involves instrumenting APIs, designing data/ML pipelines, optimizing workflows, and collaborating with partners to deliver actionable insights and decision tools. Requires strong SQL, Scala/Python/Java, data pipeline tools (Spark, Kafka, Airflow), cloud platforms, data warehousing, and data modeling. | Data | 5 |
| GPU Compiler Engineer, Graphics, Game and ML The GPU Compiler Engineer will design and build new language constructs and optimizations for GPUs, targeting graphics, compute, and machine learning applications. This role involves collaborating with hardware and software teams to maximize performance on Apple Silicon. | — | 5 |
| Metal GPU Driver Engineer, Graphics, Games, & ML Develop and support ML-based rendering algorithms for Apple's GPUs, focusing on MetalFX techniques, real-time ML workloads, and driver development for Apple Silicon devices. This role involves understanding the graphics pipeline, debugging complex software, and guiding developers on performance tuning. | Serve | 5 |
| Software Engineer - Machine Translation Automation Software Engineer role focused on building and maintaining infrastructure and tooling for machine learning automation pipelines, specifically for machine translation and NLP tasks. This involves developing and deploying ML models, optimizing distributed data processing systems, and implementing CI/CD for ML deployment. | ServePost-train | 5 |
| Data Scientist, Audio Telemetry Intelligence This role focuses on analyzing large-scale audio session and device telemetry data to uncover patterns in user behavior and system adjustments, enabling opportunities for predictive and adaptive system improvements. The ideal candidate combines strong data analysis and programming skills with experience working with large-scale datasets. This role will partner with data scientists and engineers to build reliable datasets, develop analytical workflows, and translate telemetry insights into data-driven improvements to device audio experiences. | Data | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer (Ads Platform)- Experimentation Senior Software Engineer to build the next generation of software platform and systems to advance experimentation that connect millions of global users to content from publishers and developers. Your work will drive the experimentation framework development of machine learned algorithm at scale. You will build sophisticated systems essential in the end-end development of predictive algorithms. You will design and engineer tools for managing AB test experiments, for performing exploratory analysis, and for real-time monitoring of experiment behavior, while preserving privacy of our customers. | Agent | 5 |
| iOS/macOS Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on building native iOS/macOS applications for hardware product development tools at Apple. The role involves integrating AI/ML capabilities and on-device intelligence into these applications, which are used by thousands of engineers and manufacturers to develop, debug, and verify systems before customer release. The work is at the intersection of hardware, software, and AI/ML, with high visibility and impact on product quality. | — | 5 |
| Product Manager, Apple Ads Campaign Optimization Product Manager for Apple Ads Campaign Optimization team, focusing on developing AI-driven automation products for advertiser success. This role involves defining product strategy, leveraging data analytics and customer feedback, and collaborating with engineering teams to launch new features. Expertise in ad optimization algorithms and building auto-bidding/budget optimization systems is preferred. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Siri Runtime Systems and Interaction Software Engineer role focused on developing and advancing the distributed system logic for Siri's natural interaction platforms on Apple devices. The role involves architecting simulation frameworks, creating evaluation datasets, benchmarking system policies, and collaborating with cross-functional partners to ensure seamless user request responses across complex environments. | Agent | 5 |
| Data Scientist, AIML Data Scientist This role focuses on data operations and capacity planning within an AI/ML context, specifically analyzing annotator performance, task complexity, and data characteristics to optimize data annotation workflows and project scoping. The goal is to ensure high-quality annotated data for unreleased products and AI technology by improving efficiency and quality through data-driven insights and experimentation. | Data | 5 |
| AI, Search & Knowledge - Senior Software Development Engineer, Tech Ops This role focuses on the reliability engineering of ML compute platform infrastructure, ensuring scalability, stability, and efficient resource utilization. The engineer will manage the entire lifecycle of ML compute platform reliability, from addressing user queries to proactively improving system performance and implementing operational tools and processes. The role requires strong software development skills in languages like Python and Golang, experience with large-scale ML services, and familiarity with orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes. | Serve | 5 |
| AIML - Sr Software Data Engineer, Evaluation This role is for a Sr. Software Data Engineer on the Evaluation Data Engineering team at Apple. The team builds and maintains a scalable data platform that supports Siri, Search, and Machine Learning. The engineer will design and optimize large-scale stream and batch processing data pipelines using technologies like Flink and Spark, focusing on data quality and performance to enable ML applications and product insights. The role requires significant experience in distributed data processing systems and full-stack development. | — | 5 |
| Data Integration Engineer Data Integration Engineer responsible for building and maintaining data pipelines for structured and unstructured data to support AIML model development and deployment. Focuses on data infrastructure, data quality, and integration for sales processes. | Data | 5 |
| Human Factors Research Engineer, AIML Data Operations This role focuses on human factors research to optimize annotation workflows and analyst tools for machine learning data operations at Apple. The goal is to improve the quality and efficiency of human-annotated data used in AI initiatives, supporting products like Apple Intelligence and Vision Pro. | Data | 5 |
| Data Science Leader, AIML Data Operations This role leads a Data Science team focused on AIML Data Operations, establishing health metrics, identifying growth drivers, and recommending optimizations for high-quality annotated data to support unreleased AI products. The focus is on analytics, experimentation, and building cross-functional relationships to drive data-informed decisions. | Data | 5 |
| Staff/Sr. Software Engineer, Developer Tools - AI, Search & Knowledge Platforms Staff/Sr. Software Engineer to improve developer experience for Apple's internal ML Compute platform, focusing on SDKs, CLIs, and generative AI integrations. The role involves designing and evolving tools used by thousands of engineers, reducing friction and accelerating workflows. | Serve | 5 |
| DevOps/Backend Software Engineer DevOps/Backend Engineer role focused on building and maintaining the infrastructure for AI/ML and Generative AI services at Apple's scale. This includes cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and evaluation workflows to support hardware product development teams. The role involves collaborating with ML engineering teams to integrate and operationalize models, ensuring reliable pipelines for evaluation, A/B testing, and performance benchmarking. | ServeEval Gate | 5 |
| Software Engineer - Code Observability Software Engineer to build a large-scale code observability system for Apple's OS engineering teams, combining code coverage, static analysis, and GenAI-powered insights with a modern data stack. The role involves developing data pipelines, web applications, and services on Kubernetes using Swift, Python, cloud services, and Snowflake, with a focus on developer productivity and real-time visibility into code quality and risk. | Agent | 5 |
| Devops Engineer- Agents This role is for a Platform Engineer focused on the creation, deployment, and reliability of AI Agents and MCP servers within Apple's Manufacturing Design team. The engineer will work with LLM and GenAI technologies, participate in feature design, and ensure the performance and scalability of backend services and APIs. The role requires strong experience in Go, Python, or Typescript, and in deploying applications using tools like Ansible, Docker, and Jenkins. | Agent | 5 |
| Data Science Manager – Strategic Data Solutions This role is for a Data Science Manager leading a team of data professionals in analytics engineering and experimentation. The focus is on partnering with ML engineering leaders to deliver data analytics, drive experimentation, and optimize performance across business goals. While the role interacts with ML, its core craft is data science and analytics leadership, not direct AI/ML model building. | — | 5 |
| AIML - Sr Data Scientist, Evaluation This role focuses on developing and implementing evaluation methods for Siri's user-facing products, using data science and machine learning to guide product development and improve search quality. The primary focus is on evaluation and measurement, with collaboration on core ML algorithms. | Eval Gate | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on defining, implementing, and deploying intelligent systems within Apple's Operations organization. Requires strong software engineering and machine learning expertise, with experience in large-scale distributed systems and cloud platforms. | Serve | 5 |
| Devops Engineer (MLops) DevOps Engineer (MLOps) at Apple, responsible for building and managing data and ML infrastructures, pipelines, frameworks, tools, and services in a hybrid cloud environment. Focuses on provisioning, scaling, and maintaining these systems, enabling ML platform adoption, and ensuring operational quality through observability and automation. | Serve | 5 |
| Sr. Software Engineer - AI, Search & Knowledge Observability The role is for a Sr. Software Engineer focused on building AI-enabled observability solutions for Apple's Search, AIML Infrastructure, and Apple Intelligence products. The engineer will design, develop, and deploy cloud-native observability systems, leveraging AI pipelines and industry-standard open-source technologies. The position requires strong experience in distributed systems, observability solutions, and cloud-native technologies, with a focus on Go, Javascript, Java, or Python. | Serve | 5 |
| Software Development Engineer, Photos UI, Camera & Photos Software Development Engineer for Apple's Photos UI team, focusing on building AI-driven user experiences for the Photos app across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The role involves UI development, integrating Apple Intelligence models, and working across the full product cycle from ideation to release, impacting hundreds of millions of users. | Ship | 5 |
| Maintenance and Operations Manager This role is for a Maintenance and Operations Manager at Apple, responsible for overseeing the maintenance and operational performance of facilities. While the role mentions leveraging AI tools and data for predictive maintenance and operational insights, the core function is facility management, not the direct development or deployment of AI models. The AI elements are used as tools to enhance existing processes. | — | 3 |
| Sr. Data Science Leader – iCloud This role is for a Sr. Data Science Leader in iCloud, responsible for defining and scaling the data science vision, building and guiding a high-impact organization, shaping product strategy, driving business outcomes, and elevating decision-making through data-informed insights. The leader will oversee a team of senior data scientists and managers responsible for analytics, experimentation, modeling, and insights that influence product experiences and business strategy. The role requires partnering with Product, Engineering, Design, and Business leaders, influencing executive decisions, and balancing strategic and execution levels in ambiguous environments. | — | 2 |
| Advanced Manufacturing Engineer, Core Tech This role focuses on developing and optimizing advanced manufacturing processes for Apple's next-generation products, leveraging expertise in robotics, machine vision, and precision engineering. The engineer will lead end-to-end development from concept to mass production, ensuring scalability, precision, and quality in highly automated systems. | — | 1 |
| Display Metrology Technologist - Shanghai This role focuses on display metrology and instrumentation development for new Apple products. Responsibilities include FMEA, defining calibration and test strategies, designing metrology systems, and using modeling, simulation, and machine learning for data-driven decisions. The role requires a BS in a relevant field, 3+ years of experience, and programming skills. | — | 1 |
| Software Development Engineer Test (SDET), Productivity Apps Software Development Engineer Test (SDET) for productivity apps at Apple, focusing on developing and driving scalable test automation solutions. Responsibilities include planning, designing, writing, maintaining, and executing test cases manually and through automation using Swift and Python. The role emphasizes driving quality improvements, bug reporting with isolation and regression techniques, managing priorities, and continuous learning about app features and testing techniques. Collaboration with team members for multi-functional test efforts is also key. | — | 0 |
| CN-Senior Manager This is a Senior Manager role in Apple Retail, focused on leading a team, driving store performance, and ensuring exceptional customer service. The role involves team development, operational strategy, and upholding company policies within a retail environment. It does not involve direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| US-Genius This role is for an Apple Genius responsible for providing technical support, troubleshooting, and repair services for Apple products. It involves customer interaction, educating customers on products and services, and performing hardware and software repairs. The role also includes mentoring team members and contributing to service improvements. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Design Engineer (MDE) - Packaging This role focuses on developing and implementing manufacturing processes for consumer packaging, aiming to achieve product and environmental goals. It involves leading partners in NPI, establishing industry relationships, using data analytics for decision-making, managing technology roadmaps, and collaborating with design teams to leverage manufacturing capabilities for innovative solutions. The role requires a strong understanding of manufacturing process development, GD&T, Tolerance Analysis, and SPC, with an emphasis on data-driven problem-solving and project management. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Design Engineer (MDE) - Battery Manufacturing Design Engineer (MDE) responsible for leading the development and implementation of innovative manufacturing processes for Apple's iPhone enclosures, working with worldwide suppliers and cross-functional teams to meet product quality, cost, yield, capacity, schedule, and environmental goals. Focus areas include CNC machining, surface finishing, glass processing, assembly, and painting. | — | 0 |
| US-Manager This is a retail management role focused on leading a team, driving store performance, and delivering exceptional customer experiences. It involves coaching, recruiting, training, and ensuring operational strategies are executed. The role emphasizes customer interaction, team development, and upholding company policies within a retail environment. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Quality Engineer This role is for a Manufacturing Quality Engineer at Apple, focusing on quality processes for consumer packaging parts and assemblies. Responsibilities include developing quality control regimes, conducting DOEs, qualifying regimes for mass production, leading production line qualification, mitigating quality issues with suppliers, and ensuring product quality consistency. The role requires interaction with design teams and coordination between Asia and US-based teams. | — | 0 |
| US-Manager This is a retail management role 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 managing daily operations within a retail environment. | — | 0 |
| Technical Writer (IS&T Knowledge and Training) Technical Writer for internal tools and systems at Apple, focusing on creating accessible documentation and training materials for a global workforce. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, understanding complex technologies, and producing clear, engaging content. While not directly building AI, there's an interest in using AI/GenAI tools to improve content creation and documentation workflows. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Wallet Identity Server Senior Software Engineer for Apple's Wallet, Payments & Commerce team, focusing on building resilient and reliable distributed software systems at scale. The role involves the full product and software development lifecycle, including design, build, test, delivery, maintenance, operation, monitoring, and on-call support. | — | 0 |