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 Machine Learning Engineer - Ads Auction Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple focused on building and optimizing the core auction system for their advertising platform. The role involves applying machine learning and auction theory to drive optimal outcomes for advertisers and users, working with large-scale systems and production code. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Ads Bidding & Pacing Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple focused on Ads Bidding & Pacing. The role involves designing and building scalable ML solutions for ad optimization, budget, and bid strategies to improve campaign performance and user experience. Requires experience in ML, quantitative optimization, production code development, and large-scale experimentation, ideally within the ads, recommendations, or search relevance domains. | Ship |
| 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer – Ads Predictions Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple Ads focusing on building and optimizing core ML models for ad predictions, user interaction, click-through rate, and conversion rate. The role involves deep learning, information retrieval, large-scale modeling, and exploring LLMs and Reinforcement Learning for ad prediction systems across Apple's App Store and News platforms. | ShipServe | 7 |
| AIML - ML Research Scientist, HCMI Research Scientist role focused on developing and deploying ML technologies for understanding, interacting with, evaluating, and generating user interfaces across Apple platforms. The work integrates into various Apple products and services, with a focus on shipping both internal tools and external products. | Ship | 7 |
| Staff Data Science Engineer, Siri Runtime Systems and Interaction Staff Data Science Engineer for Siri's Attention and Invocation team, focusing on making Siri and Apple products more intelligent. The role involves leading ML solution development, establishing best practices for model validation and monitoring, driving technical decisions for ML/AI initiatives, and collaborating with stakeholders to define requirements and shape the data science roadmap. | Ship | 7 |
| Staff AI Software Engineer, Siri Core Modeling Staff AI Software Engineer for Siri Core Modeling at Apple, focusing on the on-device software platform for Apple Intelligence. The role involves designing and developing features, implementing performant code, identifying architecture changes, optimizing performance, and developing software that interfaces with LLMs and on-device intelligence to enhance Siri capabilities. The position also emphasizes leveraging LLMs and AI assistants for engineering productivity. | Ship | 7 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer – Ads Platform Staff Machine Learning Engineer for Apple Ads Platform, focusing on building and deploying ML systems and data pipelines to enhance advertiser trust and invalid traffic protections. The role involves defining an innovation roadmap, implementing robust CI/CD, feature stores, and streaming infrastructure, running A/B experiments, and optimizing performance for product quality, user experience, latency, and cost. | Ship | 7 |
| Computer Vision Software Engineer, Camera & Photos Develop and extend software features for iPhone camera, focusing on computer vision, image processing, and machine learning to deliver high-quality photos and videos. This role involves prototyping algorithms, working cross-functionally, and implementing solutions for new camera capabilities across Apple devices. | Ship | 7 |
| Applied ML Science Manager The Applied ML Science Manager will lead a team focused on Causal Inference and AIML solutions for Apple's services, impacting business decisions and marketing optimization. The role involves developing and deploying cutting-edge solutions, defining technical vision, and fostering a collaborative team culture. Responsibilities include leading scientists and engineers, overseeing technical strategy, managing projects, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires a Master's degree, leadership experience, and expertise in Causal Inference techniques, ML, and programming languages. | Ship | 7 |
| Industrial Machine Learning Engineer This role focuses on applying machine learning and computer vision to industrial problems in manufacturing, specifically for inspection equipment. The engineer will develop and deploy ML models to judge millions of units daily, identify patterns and anomalies in data, and build toolkits for applying ML and statistical tools. Responsibilities include data analysis, software development in Python/Java/C++, and working with inspection systems. The role requires strong ML/CV experience in industrial settings, proficiency in Python and ML algorithms, and experience with image processing. It involves developing solutions from inception to production, with a focus on shipping AI-powered products for quality control in manufacturing. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer (Search) Machine Learning Engineer role focused on improving search quality for Apple Maps using Generative AI and LLMs at scale. Requires experience delivering ML-driven products and strong programming skills. | Ship | 7 |