Currently tracking 171 active AI roles, down 37% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $120k–$487k (avg $235k).
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Engineering Manager, Apple Data Platform Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team building foundational systems and services for Apple's AI and Data governance platform. The role focuses on Big Data management, ML infrastructure, and Generative AI, enabling efficient and scalable model development while ensuring compliance with AI regulations. The manager will influence how ML practitioners develop and scale models across Apple's products and services. | DataPost-train | 8 |
| AIML - Sr Machine Learning Engineer, Data and ML Innovation Machine Learning Engineer at Apple focused on innovating and applying state-of-the-art ML research to complex data problems, specifically for Apple Intelligence. The role involves designing and developing a data generation and curation framework for foundation models, building evaluation pipelines, and exploring new methods for synthetic data creation across vision, text, and audio. The position also emphasizes collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and potentially publishing research. |
| DataPost-train |
| 8 |
| AIML - Sr Backend Engineer, Data and ML Innovation This role focuses on building scalable backend pipelines and services for training data used in Foundation Models and Apple Intelligence features. Responsibilities include converting raw data into training formats, processing and filtering large datasets, and developing APIs for data access. The role also involves large-scale inferences for pre-training and post-training using fine-tuned LLMs. | DataPost-train | 8 |
| Senior Privacy Engineer, Intelligence (User Privacy) Senior Privacy Engineer focused on providing privacy guidance for machine learning and generative AI infrastructure at Apple. This role involves reviewing features, auditing products, guiding the roadmap of privacy technologies like differential privacy and private federated learning, and developing privacy-preserving data collection methodologies for AI systems. | DataPost-train | 7 |
| Engineering Leader, Data Engineering Engineering leader to build and lead a data engineering organization responsible for massive-scale data pipelines and services for Apple's Media Services. The role involves architecting systems for an AI-first paradigm, producing ML-ready data, and leading technology modernization programs. | Data | 7 |
| Data & Analytics Engineer, AiDP The Developer Experience Platform team is building the next generation of AI-powered tools that accelerate how applications are developed across Apple. We are looking for a Data & Analytics Engineer to help design, build, and scale the data foundation that powers this platform. In this role, you will develop robust data pipelines and analytics systems that enable AI agents, autonomous workflows, and data-driven insights—directly impacting how software is built at scale. | DataAgent | 7 |
| Senior Wireless Systems SW Engineer,Wireless Technologies & Ecosystems Senior Wireless Systems Software Engineer at Apple, focusing on designing and developing next-generation wireless technologies and standards. The role involves creating AI/ML-based data-driven learning solutions and integrating them into simulation/emulator frameworks for cellular systems (L1/L2/L3), including control and user plane protocols. Responsibilities include building physically accurate ray tracing algorithms for AI/ML integration and developing system/network performance models. The role also involves contributing to patents and intellectual property. | DataServe | 7 |
| Data Solutions Engineer, Retail Customer Insights This role focuses on designing and building data infrastructure, pipelines, and ML workflows to support customer insights research in Apple Retail. It involves modernizing research operations, deploying ML/NLP models for feedback analysis, and integrating LLM capabilities. The primary output is data infrastructure and ML-powered analysis tools, with a secondary focus on agentic capabilities for analysis. | DataAgent | 7 |
| Senior Software Development Engineer in Test Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) for Apple Services Engineering's AI/ML quality organization, focusing on building developer tools, test frameworks, and libraries for ML pipelines and AI platform services. The role involves defining testing strategies, guiding tool selection, implementing automation, and collaborating with ML Engineers and Data Scientists to ensure quality and governance of ML outputs. | DataServe | 7 |
| Sr. Software Engineer - Data, Siri Speech This role focuses on building and automating backend tools for Siri's Speech data warehouses, including cataloging, annotation, and making the data queryable via LLM-based chatbots. It involves distributed data engineering at the intersection of speech recognition, NLP, and dialogue management, with the goal of improving training and evaluation of Siri's models. | DataPost-train | 7 |
| Americas Business Process Re-Engineering Data Engineer Data Engineer role focused on building and maintaining scalable data infrastructure for analytics, machine learning, and AI-driven decision-making within Operations. The role involves designing data pipelines, building data models, implementing data observability, and collaborating with data science and ML engineering teams. It also emphasizes leveraging AI-assisted tools for development and researching emerging GenAI data tooling. | DataAgent | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Frameworks/Data, Sensing & Connectivity Software Engineer focused on data collection, processing, and ML training data curation for on-device sensors and wireless technologies. The role involves building tools for data analysis, creating datasets for LLM benchmarking, and developing frameworks for evaluating generative AI output quality and reliability. It also includes designing data pipelines for sensor data and collaborating with teams to create intelligent experiences. | DataEval Gate | 7 |
| Senior Engineering Manager, Apple Data Platform Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team building foundational systems and services for Apple's AI and Data governance platform. The role focuses on Big Data management, ML infrastructure, and Generative AI, enabling efficient and scalable model development while ensuring regulatory compliance. It involves leading efforts in data lake governance and GenAI infrastructure across the entire model development lifecycle, influencing ML practitioners and product development. | DataServe | 7 |
| Engineering Manager, User & Content Intelligence Engineering Manager to lead a team building foundational ML systems for personalization on Apple's consumer platforms. The role involves managing ML engineers, defining technical strategy for distributed feature access and pipelines, and ensuring data quality and privacy compliance at petabyte scale. It bridges data engineering, ML systems, and privacy, focusing on the data layer that powers intelligent experiences. | DataServe | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, User & Content Intelligence Machine Learning Engineer focused on building foundational capabilities for personalization experiences across Apple's consumer products. The role involves engineering large-scale feature pipelines, architecting training data systems, and optimizing for privacy and scale, bridging edge devices and cloud backends. This is a senior-level role requiring expertise in distributed data processing and serving layers. | DataServe | 7 |
| Senior Manager - AI Data Operations The Senior Manager of AI Data Operations will lead an organization of internal domain experts to build scalable annotation programs that balance accuracy and speed while maintaining quality standards. This role partners with Engineering, Data Science, and Programs to translate evolving system requirements into robust audit pipelines, tooling strategies, and measurable performance lift. Responsibilities include owning end-to-end data annotation and system audit operations, designing quality frameworks, operationalizing auditing for training, evaluation, and red-teaming, driving tooling evolution and automation strategy, and developing data augmentation strategies. | DataEval Gate | 7 |
| Data Signals Engineer - Apple Pay Data Signals Engineer for Apple Pay focusing on uncovering and prototyping fraud-deterrent signals within the iOS ecosystem, bridging data science, threat analytics, and mobile engineering. | Data | 7 |