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 Software Engineer (Ads Platform)- Experimentation Senior Software Engineer to build the next generation of software platform and systems to advance experimentation that connect millions of global users to content from publishers and developers. Your work will drive the experimentation framework development of machine learned algorithm at scale. You will build sophisticated systems essential in the end-end development of predictive algorithms. You will design and engineer tools for managing AB test experiments, for performing exploratory analysis, and for real-time monitoring of experiment behavior, while preserving privacy of our customers. | Agent | 5 |
| iOS/macOS Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on building native iOS/macOS applications for hardware product development tools at Apple. The role involves integrating AI/ML capabilities and on-device intelligence into these applications, which are used by thousands of engineers and manufacturers to develop, debug, and verify systems before customer release. The work is at the intersection of hardware, software, and AI/ML, with high visibility and impact on product quality. |
| — |
| 5 |
| Product Manager, Apple Ads Campaign Optimization Product Manager for Apple Ads Campaign Optimization team, focusing on developing AI-driven automation products for advertiser success. This role involves defining product strategy, leveraging data analytics and customer feedback, and collaborating with engineering teams to launch new features. Expertise in ad optimization algorithms and building auto-bidding/budget optimization systems is preferred. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Siri Runtime Systems and Interaction Software Engineer role focused on developing and advancing the distributed system logic for Siri's natural interaction platforms on Apple devices. The role involves architecting simulation frameworks, creating evaluation datasets, benchmarking system policies, and collaborating with cross-functional partners to ensure seamless user request responses across complex environments. | Agent | 5 |
| Data Scientist, AIML Data Scientist This role focuses on data operations and capacity planning within an AI/ML context, specifically analyzing annotator performance, task complexity, and data characteristics to optimize data annotation workflows and project scoping. The goal is to ensure high-quality annotated data for unreleased products and AI technology by improving efficiency and quality through data-driven insights and experimentation. | Data | 5 |
| AI, Search & Knowledge - Senior Software Development Engineer, Tech Ops This role focuses on the reliability engineering of ML compute platform infrastructure, ensuring scalability, stability, and efficient resource utilization. The engineer will manage the entire lifecycle of ML compute platform reliability, from addressing user queries to proactively improving system performance and implementing operational tools and processes. The role requires strong software development skills in languages like Python and Golang, experience with large-scale ML services, and familiarity with orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes. | Serve | 5 |
| Human Factors Research Engineer, AIML Data Operations This role focuses on human factors research to optimize annotation workflows and analyst tools for machine learning data operations at Apple. The goal is to improve the quality and efficiency of human-annotated data used in AI initiatives, supporting products like Apple Intelligence and Vision Pro. | Data | 5 |
| Data Science Leader, AIML Data Operations This role leads a Data Science team focused on AIML Data Operations, establishing health metrics, identifying growth drivers, and recommending optimizations for high-quality annotated data to support unreleased AI products. The focus is on analytics, experimentation, and building cross-functional relationships to drive data-informed decisions. | Data | 5 |
| DevOps/Backend Software Engineer DevOps/Backend Engineer role focused on building and maintaining the infrastructure for AI/ML and Generative AI services at Apple's scale. This includes cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and evaluation workflows to support hardware product development teams. The role involves collaborating with ML engineering teams to integrate and operationalize models, ensuring reliable pipelines for evaluation, A/B testing, and performance benchmarking. | ServeEval Gate | 5 |
| Software Engineer - Code Observability Software Engineer to build a large-scale code observability system for Apple's OS engineering teams, combining code coverage, static analysis, and GenAI-powered insights with a modern data stack. The role involves developing data pipelines, web applications, and services on Kubernetes using Swift, Python, cloud services, and Snowflake, with a focus on developer productivity and real-time visibility into code quality and risk. | Agent | 5 |
| Devops Engineer- Agents This role is for a Platform Engineer focused on the creation, deployment, and reliability of AI Agents and MCP servers within Apple's Manufacturing Design team. The engineer will work with LLM and GenAI technologies, participate in feature design, and ensure the performance and scalability of backend services and APIs. The role requires strong experience in Go, Python, or Typescript, and in deploying applications using tools like Ansible, Docker, and Jenkins. | Agent | 5 |
| Data Science Manager – Strategic Data Solutions This role is for a Data Science Manager leading a team of data professionals in analytics engineering and experimentation. The focus is on partnering with ML engineering leaders to deliver data analytics, drive experimentation, and optimize performance across business goals. While the role interacts with ML, its core craft is data science and analytics leadership, not direct AI/ML model building. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on defining, implementing, and deploying intelligent systems within Apple's Operations organization. Requires strong software engineering and machine learning expertise, with experience in large-scale distributed systems and cloud platforms. | Serve | 5 |
| Maintenance and Operations Manager This role is for a Maintenance and Operations Manager at Apple, responsible for overseeing the maintenance and operational performance of facilities. While the role mentions leveraging AI tools and data for predictive maintenance and operational insights, the core function is facility management, not the direct development or deployment of AI models. The AI elements are used as tools to enhance existing processes. | — | 3 |
| Sr. Data Science Leader – iCloud This role is for a Sr. Data Science Leader in iCloud, responsible for defining and scaling the data science vision, building and guiding a high-impact organization, shaping product strategy, driving business outcomes, and elevating decision-making through data-informed insights. The leader will oversee a team of senior data scientists and managers responsible for analytics, experimentation, modeling, and insights that influence product experiences and business strategy. The role requires partnering with Product, Engineering, Design, and Business leaders, influencing executive decisions, and balancing strategic and execution levels in ambiguous environments. | — | 2 |
| Software Development Engineer Test (SDET), Productivity Apps Software Development Engineer Test (SDET) for productivity apps at Apple, focusing on developing and driving scalable test automation solutions. Responsibilities include planning, designing, writing, maintaining, and executing test cases manually and through automation using Swift and Python. The role emphasizes driving quality improvements, bug reporting with isolation and regression techniques, managing priorities, and continuous learning about app features and testing techniques. Collaboration with team members for multi-functional test efforts is also key. | — | 0 |
| US-Genius This role is for an Apple Genius responsible for providing technical support, troubleshooting, and repair services for Apple products. It involves customer interaction, educating customers on products and services, and performing hardware and software repairs. The role also includes mentoring team members and contributing to service improvements. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Design Engineer (MDE) - Packaging This role focuses on developing and implementing manufacturing processes for consumer packaging, aiming to achieve product and environmental goals. It involves leading partners in NPI, establishing industry relationships, using data analytics for decision-making, managing technology roadmaps, and collaborating with design teams to leverage manufacturing capabilities for innovative solutions. The role requires a strong understanding of manufacturing process development, GD&T, Tolerance Analysis, and SPC, with an emphasis on data-driven problem-solving and project management. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Design Engineer (MDE) - Battery Manufacturing Design Engineer (MDE) responsible for leading the development and implementation of innovative manufacturing processes for Apple's iPhone enclosures, working with worldwide suppliers and cross-functional teams to meet product quality, cost, yield, capacity, schedule, and environmental goals. Focus areas include CNC machining, surface finishing, glass processing, assembly, and painting. | — | 0 |
| US-Manager This is a retail management role focused on leading a team, driving store performance, and delivering exceptional customer experiences. It involves coaching, recruiting, training, and ensuring operational strategies are executed. The role emphasizes customer interaction, team development, and upholding company policies within a retail environment. | — | 0 |
| US-Manager This is a retail management role at Apple, focused on leading a team to deliver exceptional customer experiences, drive store performance, and uphold company policies. It involves coaching, recruiting, training, and managing daily operations within a retail environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Wallet Identity Server Senior Software Engineer for Apple's Wallet, Payments & Commerce team, focusing on building resilient and reliable distributed software systems at scale. The role involves the full product and software development lifecycle, including design, build, test, delivery, maintenance, operation, monitoring, and on-call support. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, System Experience Software Engineer role focused on building new experiences and future technologies within the System Experience team at Apple. Responsibilities include implementing features, defining APIs, fixing bugs, and improving performance, requiring strong Swift programming, object-oriented design, systems understanding, and collaboration skills. | — | 0 |
| Business Affairs Assistant, Apple TV This role is for an Assistant in the Business Affairs department for Apple TV+. The primary responsibilities include providing high-level administrative and operational support to executives, managing complex calendars, coordinating schedules, organizing meetings, preparing expense reports, and handling confidential information. The role requires strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills, with a minimum of 1 year of experience as an executive assistant in the entertainment industry. Preferred qualifications include experience in business/legal affairs, talent agency, or entertainment law firm, and contract review skills. | — | 0 |
| US-Lead Genius Lead Genius role at Apple Retail, focusing on customer support, product repair, and team leadership. Responsibilities include troubleshooting hardware and software issues, mentoring team members, and contributing to operational excellence within the Genius Bar. | — | 0 |
| Imaging Scientist, Camera and Photos This role focuses on developing novel imaging technologies and software features for future Apple products, involving exploration, prototyping, and implementation of image processing algorithms. The scientist will work on cross-functional projects, identify new tech, and communicate its benefits. | — | 0 |
| US-Lead This role is a Lead position in Apple Retail, focusing on customer engagement, sales, and operational excellence. The Lead acts as a role model and mentor, supporting the Store Leadership team and ensuring a positive experience for both customers and team members. Responsibilities include driving sales through product expertise, organizing workflow, communicating strategy, and addressing operational needs. Minimum qualifications include retail/sales experience and leadership experience, while preferred qualifications emphasize motivational skills, decision-making, and communication. | — | 0 |
| Battery Life QA Engineer Seeking a Battery Life QA Engineer to design, develop, and own automated tests for validating battery life, analyze test results, and collaborate with engineering teams to debug issues. The role involves maintaining test automation frameworks and identifying solutions to streamline workflows. | — | 0 |
| System Experience- Notifications and Focus Engineer Software Engineer for Apple's Notifications and Focus team, focusing on user experience for iOS, watchOS, visionOS, and macOS. Responsibilities include feature definition, design, implementation, bug fixing, and performance optimization. Requires strong object-oriented design, debugging skills, and familiarity with Apple's development APIs (UIKit/SwiftUI). | — | 0 |
| System Experience - Notifications and Focus Engineer Software engineer for Apple's Notifications and Focus team, focusing on user experience for iOS and iPadOS. Responsibilities include feature definition, design, implementation, bug fixing, and performance optimization. Requires strong object-oriented design, debugging skills, and ability to tackle complex problems. | — | 0 |
| US-Lead This role is a Lead position in Apple Retail focused on customer engagement, sales, and operational excellence. The Lead acts as a role model and mentor, supporting the Store Leadership team and ensuring team members have the resources to deliver exceptional customer interactions. Responsibilities include organizing workflow, communicating sales strategies, energizing teams on performance goals, and addressing operational needs. The role requires retail or sales experience and experience mentoring others. | — | 0 |
| US-Lead This role is a Lead position in Apple Retail, focusing on supporting the Store Leadership team, facilitating customer and team member experiences, and contributing to operational excellence. The role involves mentoring, driving customer engagement and sales, organizing workflow, communicating sales strategy, and addressing operational needs. It requires retail or sales experience and experience mentoring others. | — | 0 |
| K-12 Education Account Executive K-12 Education Account Executive at Apple, responsible for leading sales engagement, understanding educator priorities, and expanding the adoption of the Apple ecosystem within assigned territories. Focuses on demand generation, managing existing customer relationships, and developing market plans to drive sales growth in educational institutions. | — | 0 |
| US-Store Leader This role is for a Store Leader at Apple Retail, responsible for building and leading a team to deliver excellent customer experiences and achieve business goals. It involves coaching, developing leaders, managing operations, and upholding Apple's values of inclusion and diversity. The role requires significant leadership experience in retail or sales. | — | 0 |
| US-Manager This is a retail management position at Apple, focused on leading a team to deliver exceptional customer experiences, drive store performance, and uphold company policies. It involves coaching, recruiting, training, and managing operational strategies within a retail environment. The role does not involve direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| OS Performance Engineer, CoreOS This role focuses on OS performance engineering, involving analysis of user experience workloads, identifying bottlenecks, and collaborating with engineering teams to prototype and implement performance improvements. It requires experience in app/framework/systems engineering and proficiency in programming languages like Obj-C, C++, or Swift. Experience with performance tracing and profiling tools is preferred. | — | 0 |
| US-Senior Manager Senior Manager role in Apple Retail focused on leading a team, driving customer interactions, achieving performance goals, and supporting business strategies. This role involves team development, operational planning, and maintaining company policies within a retail environment. | — | 0 |
| Director, Global Sales Enablement and Operations Director, Global Sales Enablement and Operations for Apple Ads, focusing on developing and operationalizing global go-to-market sales plans, evaluating new business opportunities, and driving projects to completion. This role supports commercial teams and aims to drive revenue growth within the digital advertising space. | — | 0 |
| US-Store Leader This is a Store Leader position at Apple Retail, focusing on building and leading a team to deliver exceptional customer experiences and achieve business goals. Responsibilities include coaching, developing leaders, managing operations, and upholding Apple's values of inclusion and diversity. The role requires significant leadership experience in retail or sales. | — | 0 |
| US-Senior Manager This is a Senior Manager role in Apple Retail, focused on leading a team, driving store performance, and ensuring exceptional customer service. The role involves leadership, team development, operational strategy, and upholding company policies. It is not directly involved in AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| US-Manager Manager at an Apple Store responsible for leading, coaching, and developing a team to deliver exceptional customer experiences and achieve performance goals. This role involves driving business priorities, operational strategies, and maintaining company policies, with a strong emphasis on fostering an inclusive and diverse team environment. | — | 0 |
| System Spaces UI Engineer UI Engineer for Apple's System Spaces team, focusing on building user experiences for features like Home Screen, Lock Screen, Widgets, and Notifications across Apple devices. Responsibilities include prototyping, feature implementation, API definition, bug fixing, and performance improvement. | — | 0 |
| US-Manager This is a retail store manager position at Apple. The role focuses on leading a team to deliver exceptional customer experiences, driving store performance, and upholding company policies. It involves coaching, developing, and retaining staff, as well as managing operational strategies within assigned areas. The position requires experience in leading others in retail or sales and strong communication and decision-making skills. It is not directly involved in AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| US-Store Leader This is a Store Leader position at Apple Retail, focusing on leading a team to deliver exceptional customer experiences, achieve business priorities, and foster an inclusive environment. The role involves coaching, recruiting, training, and developing a high-performing team, as well as managing store operations and strategy. It requires significant leadership experience in retail or sales. | — | 0 |
| US-Operations Lead This role is for an Operations Lead in Apple Retail, focusing on maintaining operational readiness and excellence within a store. Responsibilities include supporting the leadership team, ensuring compliance with Apple values and policies, managing inventory and presentation standards, and energizing team members to achieve performance goals. The role requires experience in retail or sales and leadership, with preferred qualifications in motivating others and decision-making. | — | 0 |
| US-Operations Lead This role is for an Operations Lead in Apple Retail, focusing on store operations, team engagement, and maintaining operational standards. It involves managing inventory, presentation, and preservation standards, ensuring compliance with Apple values and policies, and supporting the leadership team in achieving operational goals. The role requires experience in retail or sales, and mentoring others, with preferred qualifications in leadership, decision-making, and attention to detail. | — | 0 |
| Apple GPU Compiler Backend Research Engineer, Graphics, Game and ML Research Engineer focused on optimizing Apple GPU compiler backends for graphics and compute workloads, involving prototyping, feature support, code generation, and performance improvements across all Apple devices. The role collaborates with hardware and software teams to define GPU architecture roadmaps and improve compiler efficiency. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Safari Continuity Software Engineer on Safari Continuity team responsible for sync protocols, persistence layers, and system services that keep user data (bookmarks, tabs, history, sessions) synchronized across Apple devices. Focuses on distributed systems, performance, privacy, and reliability. | — | 0 |
| Technical Program Manager - Sensing Technical Program Manager for Sensing at Apple, focusing on manufacturing process, yields, and factory readiness for mass production of high-volume consumer electronics. Requires deep technical understanding of manufacturing, process integration, failure analysis, and quality methodologies. The role involves working with cross-functional teams to ensure product quality and drive operational excellence across the product life cycle. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Hardware Engineering - Hardware System Integration Engineer The Data Center Hardware Engineering team is looking for an electrical integration engineer to work on projects from design conception to mass production. This is a highly cross-functional role which requires balancing the needs and priorities of many other teams such as mechanical, power, software, firmware, silicon design, hardware validation, and reliability engineering. The EE integration team is responsible for the design, specification and realization of high-performance compute solutions supporting customer’s specific requirements. This is a design and validation position that entails owning electrical engineering implementation, documentation, and validation of customized compute designs. The ideal candidate has electrical systems integration experience with emphasis in high-speed digital design using high-performance silicon. Day-to-day tasks involve electrical design, schematic capture, board layout guidance, simulation, bringup, debug, and validation. Routine responsibilities also include factory build support, and multi-disciplinary cross-functional collaboration and negotiation where strong documentation and communications skills are critical. | — | 0 |