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 |
|---|---|---|
| Machine Learning Engineer - Visual Intelligence Machine Learning Engineer at Apple working on Visual Intelligence features, which combine computer vision, machine learning, and Apple intelligence to enhance user experiences. The role involves building next-generation features, including CV/ML components, sensor fusion, simulation/evaluation pipelines, and backend software. Experience in computer vision, real-time perception, or related fields is required. | Ship | 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 |
| Automation and Triage Engineer, Siri This role focuses on building and maintaining automated test suites and evaluation frameworks for Siri, ensuring its AI quality and performance across various Apple platforms. It involves investigating complex failures in Siri's AI pipeline, distinguishing regressions, and partnering with engineering and ML teams to define and track quality metrics. The role requires strong software engineering skills, experience with agentic systems and LLM evaluation, and familiarity with on-device AI and conversational systems. | Eval GateAgent | 7 |
| Data Architect, EMEIA Sales Apple is seeking a Data Architect to build a foundational data and AI platform for its EMEIA sales organization. This role focuses on creating a cutting-edge, AI-powered retrieval platform that transforms sales data into actionable insights, serving as the backbone for AI assistants and copilots. It's a hands-on, production-focused data engineering role involving end-to-end feature ownership and operational responsibility. | AgentData | 7 |
| Software Engineering Manager, Siri AI Quality Software Engineering Manager for Siri AI Quality at Apple, leading a team to evaluate and ensure the quality of Siri's AI systems, focusing on user interaction, on-device models, and building automation frameworks. The role involves partnering with ML and engineering teams to define quality strategies, adopt agentic AI systems for test generation, and report on quality metrics for a large-scale consumer product. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Agentic Workflows Software Engineer role focused on building next-generation developer tooling, services, and workflows for Siri and other AI experiences. The role involves designing, building, and shipping end-to-end software, with a strong emphasis on agentic systems, developer experience, and evaluation infrastructure. It requires experience with generative AI coding tools and a genuine interest in software evaluation and quality. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Senior Engineering Manager - Applied Machine Learning - AiDP Engineering Manager to lead and scale the Search / Information Retrieval team, focusing on building and scaling enterprise platforms that leverage Search & GenAI technologies. The role involves bridging legacy IR with modern GenAI for intelligent information ecosystems, managing inference systems, and ensuring high performance and low latency. | AgentServe | 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 |
| Full Stack Software Engineer - Camera & Photos Tools & AI Team Full Stack Software Engineer for Apple's Camera & Photos Tools & AI Team. This role involves building internal tools that support imaging engineering and quality workflows. The engineer will design, build, and own end-to-end development of AI-powered features, including LLM integrations, agentic workflows, and vision model pipelines. Responsibilities include evaluating, integrating, and maintaining AI/ML models in production, developing prompt engineering and RAG systems, and contributing to Swift applications, React frontends, and Python backend services. The role requires shipping production software and integrating AI/ML models into systems. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Internationalization Engineering Manager - Intelligence Features Engineering Manager for an International Intelligence Features team at Apple, focusing on leading ML engineers to build and evaluate international features, processes, and tooling using LLMs for localization and internationalization tasks. The role involves hands-on technical leadership, strategic roadmap definition, and managing a team to deliver end-user intelligence features across multiple platforms. | Post-trainServe | 7 |
| Perception Systems Software Engineer, Audio & Media Technologies Seeking a Perception Systems Software Engineer to develop a secure software architecture for multi-modal awareness on Apple platforms, involving real-time algorithms for various sensors and integration with system components for future Apple products. | Agent | 7 |
| International Engineering Lead - Intelligence Features International Engineering Lead for Intelligence Features at Apple, focusing on driving and delivering end-user intelligence features for international locales across multiple platforms. The role involves leading cross-functional teams, assessing feature internationalization, improving evaluation results, advocating for international ML best practices, building tools, and exploring LLMs for localization tasks. It requires experience with ML, LLMs, NLP, and leading international software engineering projects, with a focus on shipping AI-powered features to millions of global customers. | ShipPost-train | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Agentic Evaluation Software Engineer at Apple focused on building and evaluating AI-powered experiences for Siri and other products. The role involves end-to-end software development, from prototyping to production systems, with a strong emphasis on quality measurement and evaluation frameworks. Experience with generative AI for coding is required. | Eval GateAgent | 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 |
| Annotation Data Scientist, Evaluation Integrity (Siri) This role focuses on designing and managing human-in-the-loop (HITL) annotation tasks to evaluate agentic systems, specifically for Siri. The primary goal is to create a trusted quality signal by turning human judgment into a rigorous, reproducible metric. Responsibilities include designing annotation tasks, authoring guidelines, managing annotation programs, developing custom tooling, applying data science to analyze human-labeled data, and contributing to overall evaluation health reporting. The role sits at the intersection of data science, human annotation engineering, and evaluation methodology. | Eval GateAgent | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer Machine Learning Engineer to improve search quality for Apple Maps using ML and GenAI at scale, focusing on query understanding, intent modeling, ranking, and semantic search. | Ship | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Apple Services Engineering Machine Learning Engineer at Apple Services Engineering focused on designing, building, and deploying machine learning pipelines for personalization systems across Apple's media offerings. The role involves scaling recommender systems for billions of users, optimizing model inference, and implementing evaluation frameworks. Requires strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with large-scale ML models and big data technologies. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Routing Intelligence
Senior Software Engineer for Apple Maps Routing Engine team. Focuses on applying machine learning to improve route selection, personalization, and reasoning about the physical world for navigation across driving, walking, cycling, and transit. Involves core routing engine components like pathfinding and route ranking, and potentially inference infrastructure. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Sr Technical Product Manager, AI & Data Platforms (AiDP) Sr. Technical Product Manager for Apple's AI & Data Platforms team, focusing on building and managing GenAI capabilities for enterprise business units. The role involves defining product strategy, roadmaps, and user experiences for GenAI inferences, knowledge discovery, conversational AI, and workflow automation, working closely with engineering, data science, and business stakeholders to drive adoption and measure success. | Ship | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer Machine Learning Engineer for iCloud Mail team at Apple, focusing on building end-to-end ML-based product solutions to improve user experiences, anti-abuse, and customized mail features. Requires strong production experience in training and evaluating ML models, building scalable services, and working with big data technologies like Spark. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer - iCloud Anti-Abuse Machine Learning Engineer for iCloud Anti-Abuse team at Apple, focusing on building and deploying ML models for abuse detection (spam, phishing) at massive scale. The role involves the full ML lifecycle from data pipelines and feature engineering to model training, low-latency inference, and monitoring within distributed systems. | ServeData | 7 |
| Finance Digital Transformation - Senior Machine Learning Engineer Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Finance at Apple, focused on building and extending AI/ML platforms and services for finance organizations. The role involves developing infrastructure for generative AI, agentic workflows, and ML inference, with a strong emphasis on MLOps, observability, and compliance within Finance governance frameworks. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Search Machine Learning Engineer Senior Machine Learning Engineer for Apple Maps, focusing on improving search quality using ML and Generative AI. The role involves developing algorithms for query understanding, intent modeling, ranking, and semantic search, as well as building data pipelines and collaborating with other teams. Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning is required, along with strong programming and ML framework knowledge. | Ship | 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 |
| Principal ML Software Engineer, Creativity Apps Principal ML Software Engineer for Apple's Creativity Apps team, focusing on building and optimizing on-device ML features for creative editing tools. The role involves architecting efficient execution capabilities, implementing ML algorithms on-device, and collaborating with scientists and designers to deliver performant, ML-based application features, with a strong emphasis on computer vision and iOS platform capabilities. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Cellular Software Enablement Engineer, Wireless Technologies & Ecosystems This role focuses on building AI systems and algorithms to automate crash debugging and root-cause analysis for firmware boot failures in cellular modem chips. The engineer will develop AI-powered engineering tools, LLM APIs, AI agents, and automated workflows, leveraging AI for intelligent automation in silicon bring-up and validation. | AgentData | 7 |
| Finance Data Scientist - Enablement This role focuses on enabling Finance teams to transform from manual data preparers to AI-enabled decision partners. The Finance Data Scientist will guide teams through a maturity journey from automation to AI and predictive models, empowering them to leverage capabilities like data automation, BI, advanced analytics, ML, and AI agent creation within a governed framework. Responsibilities include partnering with leaders, developing roadmaps, educating teams on concepts like prompt engineering and agentic AI design, collaborating on solutions like automated workflows and finance-specific AI agents, and championing governance and AI frameworks. | AgentData | 7 |
| Software Engineer AIML Software Engineer to lead the software development of test systems for Apple products, and integrate AI/ML into daily workflows. This role involves designing and developing AI/ML solutions to improve workflows, team efficiency, and product quality, alongside developing and maintaining test libraries and integrating test systems. | Serve | 7 |
| Conversational Designer This role focuses on designing and optimizing conversational AI experiences for Apple's online store, aiming to enhance customer engagement and satisfaction. The designer will lead the conceptualization and implementation of chatbot conversations, leveraging technologies like RAG and AI QA tools, and ensuring brand voice consistency. The role requires a blend of creativity, strategic thinking, and technical understanding of how AI models retrieve information and generate responses. | Agent | 7 |
| Advanced Manufacturing Engineer(iPhone) - Smart Manufacturing This role focuses on driving manufacturing research and development for iPhone final assembly line automation, integrating AI/ML and smart manufacturing technologies. The engineer will lead automation projects, leverage AI/ML and LLMs to optimize processes, and develop data-driven methods. Responsibilities include spearheading AI/ML adoption, leading core engineering projects, developing intelligent testing methods, conducting advanced data analysis, and mentoring teams on AI-augmented manufacturing. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Product Manager The Senior Product Manager will define and deliver AI-powered solutions for live streaming moderation and VOC analytics, owning the product lifecycle and driving execution for AI systems that protect brand integrity and transform customer feedback into actionable business intelligence. This role requires a strong technical understanding of AI, familiarity with APAC social commerce, and the ability to translate business problems into product requirements, working with engineering teams to ship products that balance automation with human oversight. | Ship | 7 |
| Financial Data Analyst This role focuses on applying Generative AI and machine learning techniques to financial planning and analysis (FP&A) within the APAC region. The analyst will own core FP&A responsibilities, build intelligent data products to transform financial workflows, and leverage LLMs/GenAI frameworks for finance use cases. The role requires strong data fluency, experience with modern data science tools, and the ability to work with incomplete data to generate insights. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer - Intelligent Engineering Workflows Software Engineer to design and build intelligent tooling, automation, and AI-powered workflows using AI agents to improve engineering productivity and software quality across Apple's media technology stack. This role involves prototyping and productizing systems that leverage agentic coding workflows, AI-driven code analysis, and automation pipelines to streamline development processes, accelerate issue resolution, and enhance code quality at scale. | Agent | 7 |
| Sr./Staff ML Infrastructure Engineer, Compute (TPU Scheduling) - Foundation Model This role focuses on designing and developing scheduling and orchestration systems for large-scale TPU workloads in multi-region clusters, supporting foundation model training and inference. It involves distributed systems, cluster management, and performance optimization. | Serve | 7 |
| Computational Photography/Computer Vision Machine Learning Engineer, Camera & Photos Develop and train deep learning models for image restoration and fusion applications to improve Apple's camera imaging pipeline, contributing to consumer products. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineering Manager, Wallet Identity Engineering Manager for Wallet Identity Services at Apple, focusing on leading a team that builds and operates ML-powered services for liveness detection, face matching, and image quality. The role involves full lifecycle ownership of these services, from architecture and development to deployment and monitoring, with a strong emphasis on MLOps and scaling ML models in production. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Sr Machine Learning Engineer, Proactive This role focuses on building and deploying machine learning models to create intelligent search experiences, aiming to improve search relevance, ranking, and user satisfaction within Apple's consumer products. The engineer will be responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of these models, from research to production. | Ship | 7 |
| Sr Engineering Program Manager, AI/ML Technical Program Manager to help shape the future of scalable machine learning infrastructure. Lead planning, execution, and cross-functional coordination across engineering teams to deliver robust, high-performance ML systems that operate across Apple’s cloud and distributed environments. Define and run processes that ensure the timely delivery of GPU, compute, and data infrastructure components that support large-scale ML workloads. | ServeData | 7 |
| Engineering Program Manager, AI/ML, Apple Services Engineering (ASE) Engineering Program Manager for AI/ML and Generative AI features within Apple Media Products. This role involves driving the end-to-end delivery of large-scale, cross-functional ML/GenAI programs, from strategic planning and execution to managing timelines, resources, and cross-functional collaboration. The role requires understanding the full ML lifecycle and mitigating technical challenges to ensure successful product launches. | Ship | 7 |
| Subject Matter Expert - Automation & AI/ML This role focuses on developing and implementing next-generation automated processes for cosmetic and protective finishes (PVD coatings, Ink Printing) in high-volume manufacturing. It involves both physical automation (robotics, PLCs) and digital automation, including machine vision and deploying ML/AI models for predictive maintenance, defect detection, and process optimization. The role requires integrating automation parameters with materials chemistry and collaborating with cross-functional teams. | AgentServe | 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 leading design and development of features, implementing performant code, identifying architectural 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. | Agent | 7 |
| Location Estimation Scientist, Sensing & Connectivity This role focuses on building and maintaining production-grade software systems and ML models for location intelligence using sensor data. It involves the full ML lifecycle from problem formulation to production deployment, with a strong emphasis on signal processing, data infrastructure, and scaling ML to hundreds of millions of devices. | Serve | 7 |
| Engineering Program Manager, Search Quality and Infrastructure, Apple Services Engineering Engineering Program Manager to drive the execution of large-scale, machine learning-powered search products and infrastructure at Apple, focusing on improving user experience and quality for over a billion customers. | Ship | 7 |
| Engineering Project Manager - AI Features Internationalization, L&RE Engineering Project Manager responsible for the internationalization and global launch of AI-driven products, including Apple Intelligence. This role involves leading technical integration of generative AI and ML features across multiple languages and countries, managing international data generation, and driving model evaluation strategy for audio, vision, and language models. | Post-trainData | 7 |
| Solutions Lead, AI & Data Platforms This role is for an AI Solutions Lead responsible for designing and driving the delivery of enterprise-scale Generative AI and Data Platform solutions within Apple's enterprise. The role involves close collaboration with business stakeholders, hands-on prototyping, and guiding teams through execution to deliver impactful AI solutions. | Agent | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer- Gen AI Machine Learning Engineer focused on GenAI applications, delivering projects end-to-end from conceptualization to deployment. The role involves statistical analysis, business intelligence solutions, and presentations to executives. It requires experience with LLMs/LMMs, agents, agentic workflows, and RAG applications. | AgentPost-train | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Search & Knowledge Platforms Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple focused on Search & Knowledge Platforms, developing next-generation Search and Question Answering systems for Apple products like Siri and Spotlight. The role involves designing, training, and deploying ML models for search relevance and ranking, leveraging large language models and large-scale data management. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Tech Lead Machine Learning Engineer - Finance Digital Transformation Tech Lead Machine Learning Engineer for Finance Digital Transformation at Apple. The role focuses on building data foundations, services, and platforms for insights and automated decisions within the Finance organization, specifically for product cost. Responsibilities include technical leadership, operationalizing AI solutions from prototype to production, and instilling ML engineering practices. Requires experience in ML algorithms, generative AI, agentic solutions, MLOps/LLMOps, data pipelines, and Python. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Tech Lead Machine Learning Engineer - Finance Tech Lead Machine Learning Engineer for Finance at Apple, focusing on building and operationalizing AI solutions for product cost analysis and decision automation. The role involves leading engineers, collaborating cross-functionally, and bridging the gap between ML prototypes and production systems within the Finance organization. Requires experience in ML algorithms, generative AI, agentic solutions, MLOps, and scalable data pipelines. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Apple Cloud AI Platform Product Engineer for Apple Cloud AI Platform, focused on building end-to-end AI-driven systems and solutions for internal customers, translating real-world AI needs into production-ready platform offerings. This role involves working across the full stack, from data ingestion to model execution and UI integration, influencing platform roadmaps, and driving alignment between product management, partner platforms, and customer teams. | ShipServe | 7 |
