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 |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering Manager, Maps Search Intelligence Engineering Manager for Apple Maps Search Intelligence team, responsible for leading the design, development, and production deployment of core search algorithms, large-scale ML models, and generative AI systems. The role involves defining the technical roadmap, driving execution across the ML lifecycle, and partnering with product and design teams to shape the future of Maps Search and integrate with Apple Intelligence. | AgentServe | 9 |
| Machine Learning Engineer Machine Learning Engineer to design and build GenAI-powered features and workflows leveraging LLMs and modern AI techniques for supply chain optimization. Responsibilities include end-to-end GenAI capability development, prompt and tool design, agent orchestration, retrieval strategies, model selection, system evaluation, Text-to-SQL development, and establishing guardrails. Will also focus on inference and serving in production. |
| AgentServe |
| 9 |
| Senior Applied Researcher Senior Applied Researcher with expertise in Generative AI, LLM architectures, and advanced NLP systems. The role involves architecting, designing, and deploying LLM-powered systems for personalization, automation, and customer understanding across Apple Services. Responsibilities include research in representation learning, semantic modeling, NLU, RAG, fine-tuning, evaluation, safety alignment, and exploring methods like parameter-efficient adaptation, multi-agent orchestration, and RLHF. The role also involves building prototypes and production-grade solutions, contributing to patents/publications, and mentoring other researchers. Requires a Ph.D. or equivalent experience, expert knowledge of deep learning/NLP/transformers, LLM development, Python, and ML frameworks, with experience deploying models in production. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Applied AI Engineer Applied AI Engineer at Apple Sales, focused on crafting and operating AI solutions using LLMs and agentic workflows for business problems. Responsibilities include designing agentic AI systems, translating research into production, building scalable pipelines, and leading technical decisions on infrastructure and safety mechanisms. Requires PhD or MS with significant experience in applied AI/ML, Python proficiency, and hands-on experience with LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, and agentic workflows. | AgentServe | 9 |
| Research Scientist, Applied Machine Learning Security (Agent Systems), SEAR Staff-level ML Security Research Scientist focused on applied research for production agentic ML systems, particularly tool-using models. The role involves leading research to identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities in these systems, designing realistic adversarial evaluations, and driving defenses into shipping products. The emphasis is on production impact and risk reduction, bridging research, platform engineering, and product security. | Agent | 9 |
| Senior Engineering Manager, Applied AI & Agentic Experiences Senior Engineering Manager to lead Applied AI experiences for Channel Sales, focusing on intelligent workflows, conversational experiences, and agentic AI capabilities for the end-to-end Commerce Journey. This role involves leading a team, driving product engineering strategy, and shipping ML-powered products and features, ideally involving LLMs and AI agents. | AgentServe | 9 |
| Principal Applied Researcher Seeking a Senior Applied Researcher with expertise in Generative AI and LLM architectures to influence and implement foundational intelligence capabilities across Apple Services. The role involves architecting, designing, and deploying LLM-powered systems, leading research in areas like representation learning and RAG, driving LLM fine-tuning and evaluation, and exploring advanced methods like parameter-efficient adaptation and multi-agent orchestration. The goal is to build production-grade solutions that advance Apple's reasoning capabilities over text and behavioral signals at scale. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Machine Learning Manager - AI, Search & Knowledge Platforms Machine Learning Manager to lead a team building AI, Search, and Knowledge Platforms for Apple products like Siri and Apple Intelligence. The role focuses on integrating LLMs with server-side architectures to deliver scalable, reliable, and user-centric AI services and agentic systems. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Senior AI Engineer Senior AI Engineer role focused on building and operating LLM-powered applications and agentic AI systems for Apple Sales. Responsibilities include designing, prototyping, and productionizing intelligent agents, retrieval pipelines, and embedded AI features, integrating structured and unstructured data, and leading technical decisions on infrastructure and safety mechanisms. Requires strong Python, LLM, RAG, and agent orchestration framework experience. | Agent | 8 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Apple Intelligence Data Platform - Proactive Machine Learning Engineer focused on building and deploying scalable agent systems for Apple's on-device and cloud-based intelligence features, including Siri Suggestions and proactive intelligence. The role involves personalization, context-awareness, and integration with LLMs, vector databases, and knowledge graphs to enhance user experiences across Apple devices. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, ASE Search Team Machine Learning Engineer on the Video Search team at Apple, focusing on building and deploying large-scale ML systems for search and discovery in the Apple TV App, Siri, and Spotlight. The role involves applying ML, NLP, and generative AI to model user intent, optimize retrieval and ranking, and enhance search relevance and personalization using cutting-edge technologies and adhering to strict privacy standards. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer – Ads Signals Intelligence & Information Retrieval Staff Machine Learning Engineer for Apple Ads, focusing on building ML-driven signal platforms for retrieval, prediction, and relevance. The role involves developing content understanding systems and large-scale infrastructure for near real-time signal updates, using LLM fine-tuning, knowledge graphs, semantic search, and multimodal learning. The primary output is an agentic system for ad delivery, with a secondary focus on the inference infrastructure supporting it. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Generative AI & ML, Customer Systems Senior Software Engineer role focused on Generative AI and ML within Apple's Customer Systems IS&T organization. The role involves contributing to model development, fine-tuning, designing retrieval strategies for grounding models, prototyping multi-agent systems, and ensuring scalable deployment. The team builds multi-turn, conversational, agentic applications and frameworks for customer support, enhancing a multi-modal, multi-agent platform with a focus on research to improve latency, cost, and customer experience. | AgentPost-train | 8 |
| Data Scientist, EMEIA Sales This role focuses on developing and deploying AI-powered applications, specifically agentic systems, for sales use cases. The Data Scientist will research, test, and implement these solutions, working with various stakeholders to drive AI adoption and educate non-technical teams. The role involves hands-on work with LLMs, agent frameworks, and prompt engineering, with a good understanding of RAG and vector databases. | Agent | 8 |
| AI / Data Engineer The AI/Data Engineer will focus on building AI-powered applications, scalable backend systems, and Generative AI solutions for supply chain and logistics. This role involves modern AI engineering, prompt engineering, and intelligent application development, including designing agentic AI capabilities, multi-agent workflows, and orchestration patterns. The engineer will also build and optimize backend AI and data services, develop prompts and evaluation methodologies, and support the deployment and operationalization of AI solutions. | AgentData | 8 |
| AI/ML Engineer (GenAI), G&A Solutions Engineering (GSE) AI/ML Engineer role focused on building a next-generation payments platform using Generative AI, Agentic AI, and LLMs. The role involves modernizing complex product architectures for reconciliation, invoicing, and payments, and transforming transactional data processing. | AgentPost-train | 8 |
| Principal AI Architect, App Store Data Principal AI Architect role focused on designing and shipping AI systems, including agentic workflows and LLM-powered data products, for the App Store. The role involves translating business problems into AI initiatives, guiding AI strategy, designing production-grade AI systems, and ensuring adherence to security and compliance policies. Requires extensive experience with LLMs, agentic workflows, and building/deploying AI/ML solutions in production. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning & AI Senior Software Engineer on the Product Integrity AI/ML team at Apple, focusing on developing and deploying AI/ML solutions for hardware product design, manufacturing, and testing. The role involves building scalable infrastructure for ML workflows, including agentic systems, and applying techniques like LLMs, custom model training, and RAG to hardware challenges. The position requires strong software engineering skills, leadership, and mentorship. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Silicon Automation Engineer - Robotics and AIML Seeking an automation engineer with expertise in Silicon Validation, robotics control, AIML, and software development to build an intelligent automation system for silicon validation. The role involves integrating software and hardware, controlling robotics with computer vision and ML, and implementing AI/ML models for detection, collision avoidance, and control. | Agent | 8 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic Workflows - Software Delivery Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on building agentic workflows to improve Apple's software delivery and developer productivity. This role involves designing and implementing ML pipelines, developing intelligent systems for code analysis and search, and leading the design of generative AI solutions. | AgentServe | 8 |
| AI Engineer - Wireless Systems Analysis , Wireless Technologies & Ecosystems AI Engineer role focused on developing and deploying generative AI/LLM solutions for wireless systems performance analysis. Responsibilities include architecting RAG pipelines, fine-tuning LLMs, building backend services, and establishing evaluation frameworks, with a focus on wireless log analysis and telecom-specific use cases. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Software Engineer - Generative AI & ML, Customer Systems Software Engineer role focused on building multi-turn, conversational, agentic applications and frameworks for customer support, enhancing a multi-modal, multi-agent platform with a focus on research to improve latency, cost, and customer experience. Involves model development, fine-tuning, retrieval strategies, and multi-agent system prototyping. | AgentData | 8 |
| Applied AI Engineer - iCloud Data This role focuses on building and scaling AI-native capabilities within Apple's iCloud data platform. The engineer will design, build, and own end-to-end AI systems, including agents, retrieval mechanisms, evaluation, guardrails, and observability. Key responsibilities involve optimizing AI systems for cost and performance, exploring state-of-the-art AI techniques, and educating the broader organization on AI patterns. The role requires experience in taking LLM or agentic systems from prototype to production, proficiency in modern AI frameworks, and a strong understanding of ML/DL principles. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Video Search Team Machine Learning Engineer on the Video Search team at Apple, focusing on building and deploying large-scale ML systems for search and discovery across Apple platforms. The role involves applying ML, NLP, and generative AI to model user intent, optimize retrieval and ranking systems, and integrate advanced ML technologies into production features used by millions. Key responsibilities include designing and implementing retrieval/ranking systems, building/deploying LLM models, analyzing performance, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Senior iCloud Efficiency Engineer (GenAI & Agentic Systems) Senior Engineer to lead GenAI and agentic systems for improving efficiency in large-scale cloud infrastructure operations. Focuses on building practical AI systems for engineering workflows, capacity planning, anomaly detection, and operational safety, using LLMs, RAG, and automation frameworks. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Engineering Manager - GenAI, AI & Data Platforms (AiDP) Engineering Manager for GenAI, AI & Data Platforms at Apple, leading a team to build scalable GenAI platform and applications, including RAG and Agentic components, with a focus on distributed systems, inference, and enterprise adoption. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Machine Learning Engineer Machine Learning Engineer at Apple responsible for designing, building, and deploying scalable, production-grade AI/ML systems, with a focus on LLM-powered features and AI agent workflows. This role involves end-to-end solution development, from concept to deployment, including integration into existing systems and continuous improvement of ML infrastructure. | AgentServe | 8 |
| AI/ML Software Engineer - SES Gen AI Solutions, IS&T AI/ML Engineer to design, develop, and deploy intelligent solutions for modern contact center platforms, focusing on scalable AI systems for chatbots, voice assistants, speech analytics, and automated customer support workflows. The role involves building end-to-end AI pipelines, including model development, deployment, and optimization, with deep expertise in LLMs, conversational AI, and real-time inference systems. | AgentServe | 8 |
| ML Engineer, Ai & Data Platforms ML Engineer to design, build, and deploy production AI and machine learning solutions for Apple's enterprise, focusing on Generative AI and Data Platforms. The role involves working across the full ML lifecycle, building automated ML pipelines, developing LLM-based solutions (RAG, agents), and integrating ML systems with the enterprise data platform. | AgentData | 8 |
| Wireless Systems AI/ML Engineer, Wireless Technologies & Ecosystems This role focuses on building next-generation AI agents and tools for analyzing wireless connectivity and performance issues in Apple products. It involves developing advanced system evaluation and debugging capabilities using AIML tools, with an emphasis on improving user experience. The role requires expertise in ML frameworks, Gen AI techniques like RAG and Agent Orchestration, and Python scripting, with a strong understanding of wireless protocols. | AgentServe | 8 |
| AI/Machine Learning Engineer AI/ML Engineer to build intelligent systems and deploy state-of-the-art AI models and systems across Apple's business groups. Responsibilities include implementing ML infrastructure, developing feature engineering and fine-tuning frameworks, designing ML pipelines, and optimizing models. The role requires designing systems from raw data to autonomous action, implementing RAG pipelines, working with embeddings and vector databases, building AI agents with tool use, and fine-tuning transformer models. Experience with large-scale data and ML frameworks is essential. | AgentData | 8 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Search & AI Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on developing next-generation Search and Question Answering systems using cutting-edge search technologies and large language models. The role involves improving Query Understanding, Retrieval, and Ranking, leveraging fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, embeddings, deep learning, and online learning. Experience with RAG, retrieval, and generative LLMs is crucial. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer – Ads Signals Intelligence & Information Retrieval Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Apple Ads focused on building ML-driven signal platforms for retrieval, prediction, and relevance. The role involves developing content understanding systems and large-scale infrastructure for near real-time signal updates, enabling privacy-aware decision-making. Key activities include LLM fine-tuning, knowledge graph construction, semantic search, and multimodal representation learning to extract structured intelligence from unstructured data, supporting ad retrieval, creative ranking, and marketplace optimization. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Machine Learning Engineer - LLM Machine Learning Engineer to build a GenAI system for Apple Audio products, focusing on LLM/LMM development, agents, and RAG applications. Requires experience in ML algorithms, software engineering, and data mining with LLMs/LMMs. | AgentPost-train | 8 |
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer – Ads Prediction, Signals & Quality Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Apple Ads, focusing on innovation in ad prediction, quality, and privacy-preserving signals. The role involves building large-scale prediction models, designing privacy-respecting signals, and ensuring ad quality. It requires expertise in deep learning, prediction systems, and privacy-preserving ML, with a strong emphasis on production experience and technical leadership. | AgentData | 8 |
| Perception Algorithm Engineer This role focuses on designing and implementing real-time multi-object tracking systems using deep learning and multimodal estimates for computer vision problems within Apple products. It involves developing evaluation frameworks, curating datasets, and integrating perception systems into a larger software stack, with a strong emphasis on robotics and state-estimation pipelines. | AgentData | 7 |
| Software QA Engineer - Automation, Siri Software QA Engineer focused on automation for Siri, Apple's AI assistant. The role involves ensuring software frameworks and environments are updated for new AI capabilities, partnering with development teams, and owning automation support. Requires expertise in Python, Bash, or Swift with ML/NLP exposure, and experience building test frameworks using ML models and LLMs. | Agent | 7 |
| Commercial Data Scientist, ANZSA This role focuses on designing and implementing AI-powered analytical solutions for channel sales growth in the ANZSA region. It involves architecting and deploying transformative AI solutions, including ML optimization, LLMs, and agentic systems, leveraging techniques like RLHF and GNNs. The role requires close collaboration with business and engineering teams, productionizing models, and ensuring robust validation and data pipelines. | AgentPost-train | 7 |
| AI & Data Security Engineer This role focuses on securing data throughout the AI lifecycle, including data classification, access control, model deployment, and agentic applications. The engineer will design and enforce security policies, lead red team exercises, and develop security standards for AI products. | Agent | 7 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer This role is for a Forward Deployed Engineer who bridges the gap between Sales teams and the AI-driven insight platform. The engineer will translate business problems into code, build prototypes, operationalize models, and integrate solutions with platform APIs. The role requires strong full-stack engineering skills, familiarity with AI/ML concepts, and the ability to partner with data science and engineering teams. The goal is to influence the platform roadmap and drive self-service adoption. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer - People Analytics Machine Learning Engineer for People Analytics team at Apple, focusing on applying predictive modeling, statistical analysis, and ML techniques to talent management, employee surveys, compensation, and recruiting. The role involves designing, implementing, and operating data-driven solutions in a production environment, with a focus on translating business problems into analytical solutions and monitoring performance. Experience with NLP and network analysis is a plus. | Agent | 7 |
| Finance Digital Transformation - Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building Generative AI and Machine Learning platforms and services within a Finance organization, emphasizing agentic AI web apps, backend services, and frontend experiences. The role requires strong software engineering practices, CI/CD, testing, logging, monitoring, and adherence to stringent finance governance and regulatory frameworks like SOX. | Agent | 7 |
| Latin America (ALAC) AIML Data Quality & Governance Scientist This role focuses on building and evolving enterprise knowledge graphs to serve as a foundation for AI agents and analytical tools for sales teams. It involves capturing business knowledge, designing graph schemas, implementing data quality and governance policies, and integrating unstructured data. The role also includes designing retrieval architectures and evaluation pipelines for AI agent consumption of this knowledge. | AgentData | 7 |
| Latin America AIML Data Scientist (Decision Intelligence) This role focuses on developing and deploying ML models and AI agents for sales decision intelligence. It involves building insight pipelines, designing forecasting and anomaly detection models, integrating insights into GenAI tools and agents, and implementing LLM evaluation pipelines. The role requires strong Python, ML, SQL, and LLM skills, with an emphasis on translating business problems into technical solutions and collaborating with various teams. | AgentPost-train | 7 |
| Data Scientist, Apple Pay Marketing (Machine Learning Research) This role focuses on leveraging AI and ML, including LLMs, to build production-grade causal inference pipelines and ML-powered experiment analyses for marketing optimization within Apple Pay. The primary goal is to quantify marketing effectiveness, inform budget allocation, and identify customer response patterns through advanced ML techniques and generative AI tools. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer - Regulatory AI & Connected Data Software Engineer to design, build, and ship AI-powered software systems that improve the efficiency of the Product Analysis and Compliance Engineering (PACE) team. This role involves working with agentic harnesses, integrating LLMs into production, and building data pipelines, with a focus on regulatory compliance and secure engineering practices. | AgentData | 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 |
