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 |
|---|---|---|
| Machine Learning Engineer, Apple Intelligence ML Engineer focused on building and optimizing generative models for international languages, covering the full pipeline from data preprocessing to deployment. | Post-trainServe | 9 |
| 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. | Agent |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Machine Learning Software Engineer Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience in Java and distributed systems, focusing on Search, Information Retrieval, and Generative AI for enterprise applications. The role involves building, scaling, and maintaining high-performance systems for Search, Knowledge Graph, ML, and inferencing, with an emphasis on availability, performance, and low latency. | ShipServe | 5 |
| Machine Learning Software Engineer Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience in Java development, distributed systems, and Search/Information Retrieval, with a keen interest in Generative AI. The role involves building, scaling, and maintaining enterprise platforms for Search, Knowledge Graph, ML, and inferencing systems, focusing on high availability, performance, and low latency. | ServeAgent | 5 |
| Software Development Engineer - Ads Delivery Software Development Engineer to build highly scalable platforms and services for Apple's Advertising Platforms group. Responsibilities include designing, implementing, and operating distributed and scalable services and data applications, building efficient data pipelines, and applying machine learning techniques to enhance ad targeting and measurement. Requires strong experience in distributed systems, microservices, big data technologies, and cloud platforms. | Data | 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 |
| 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 |
| Data Platform Engineer Apple Ads is seeking a Data Platform Engineer with expertise in building large-scale data systems, including Kafka Connect, Apache Spark, and Apache Flink. The role involves designing and operating distributed data systems, enhancing the platform with modern data solutions, managing stakeholders, and leading projects. Requires proficiency in Java/Scala and experience with distributed systems, APIs, and debugging. Exposure to applied ML, analytics, and BI is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineering Manager This role is for a Site Reliability Engineering Manager at Apple, supporting scalable and resilient distributed systems for data pipelines and analytics platforms. The role involves leading an SRE team, driving operational excellence, incident response, and automation for data platforms. While the team is within the AI & Data Platforms (AiDP) organization and mentions generative AI, the core responsibilities focus on SRE for data infrastructure, not direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 0 |
| Tools and Automation Engineer Apple is seeking a Tools and Automation Engineer with map-building experience to deliver sophisticated tooling solutions and support Apple Maps Production Operations. The role involves defining technical requirements, executing testing, deploying solutions, and identifying automation opportunities. The engineer will manage a contractor team and act as a technical troubleshooter. | — | 0 |
| Thermal SQA Automation Engineer This role is for a QA Automation Engineer focused on testing Thermal Control Systems for Apple products. Responsibilities include executing and maintaining automated tests, debugging failures, analyzing results, expanding test coverage, and developing Python scripts for data analysis. Requires 3+ years of QA automation experience with Python and experience testing consumer products. | — | 0 |
| Product Safety Engineer Product Safety Engineer at Apple, Bengaluru, responsible for ensuring Apple products meet international safety standards and regulations. This role involves supporting safety engineering design, testing, and continuous improvement strategies, with expertise in applying, interpreting, and developing product safety standards for product commercialization. The engineer will conduct safety compliance testing, report writing, acquire certifications, and drive product design for safety and compliance to global standards (IEC/EN/UL/CSA). Responsibilities include conducting design of experiments, failure analyses, owning safety aspects of products, negotiating design processes, understanding manufacturing processes for safety issues, and working with suppliers. Requires a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering or related field with 10+ years of experience in consumer product design, safety, risk, and failure analysis, proficiency in evaluating product safety and compliance to specific standards, and experience with FMEA and fault trees. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Manufacturing Design Engineer - Chennai Manager for Manufacturing Design Engineering team responsible for developing key mechanical manufacturing processes across Apple's worldwide supply base. This role involves leading a team, technical depth in manufacturing processes (CNC Machining, Surface Finishing, Glass Processing, Assembly), driving program outcomes, and ensuring design intent is translated into robust production processes from prototype to mass production. Emphasizes data-driven decisions using DOE, SPC, and capability analysis. | — | 0 |