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 |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing Design Engineer (MDE) - iPhone Manufacturing Design Engineer for iPhone, focusing on driving the development of key mechanical manufacturing processes, automation, and fixture design. This role involves innovation in assembly fixture designs, working with engineering teams to identify automation needs, and collaborating with suppliers worldwide. Responsibilities include evaluating automation and fixture implementation risk, providing technical support, and driving research and development for step-change improvements in process capability. The role requires expertise in automation, robotics, fixture design, machine vision, and CAD, with a BS/MS in engineering. | — | 0 |
| US-Manager This is a retail store manager position at Apple. The role focuses on leading a team, delivering exceptional customer experiences, driving store performance, and upholding company policies. It involves coaching, recruiting, training, and managing operational strategies within assigned areas of the store. The role does not involve direct AI/ML development or research. | — |
| 0 |
| Darwin Runtime Engineer, Core OS Software Engineer on the Darwin Runtime team responsible for building low-level runtime technologies like Grand Central Dispatch (GCD), secure inter-process communication systems, memory allocator, threading library, and concurrency and synchronization primitives for Apple's operating systems. | — | 0 |
| Mac Systems Power Delivery Architect This role is for a Mac Systems Power Delivery Architect at Apple, focusing on designing and leading power delivery system architectures for Mac computers. It requires expertise in power electronics, PMICs, and DC-DC voltage regulators, involving architectural guidance, technology investigations, defining requirements for mixed-signal power ICs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The role involves system-level partitioning, tradeoff analyses, and ensuring successful product implementation. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, System Experience - Calendar Experience Senior Software Engineer for Apple's System Experience Calendar team, focusing on reimagining the calendar experience across Apple platforms. The role involves contributing to both platform and product, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and delivering impactful software. Requires strong Objective-C & Swift proficiency, experience with concurrency, state management, and architecting scalable applications. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Design Engineer (MDE) - iPhone Manufacturing Design Engineer for iPhone, focusing on automation, fixture design, machine vision, and robotics for mass production processes. Requires experience in designing, deploying, and supporting automated manufacturing lines. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Design Engineer (MDE) - Brittles This role focuses on developing and optimizing manufacturing processes for key mechanical components, including CNC machining, surface finishing, glass processing, assembly, and painting. The engineer will work with suppliers, define process parameters, select equipment, and drive engineering issues to resolution, using data analysis and SPC. The role requires a BS/MS/PhD in mechanical, manufacturing, or industrial engineering and 3+ years of experience. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Design Engineer (MDE) - iPhone Manufacturing Design Engineer for iPhone, focusing on driving the development of key mechanical manufacturing processes, automation, and fixture design. This role involves innovation in assembly fixture designs, working with engineering teams to identify automation needs, and collaborating with suppliers worldwide. Responsibilities include evaluating automation and fixture implementation risk, providing technical support, and driving research and development for step-change improvements in process capability. The role requires expertise in automation, robotics, fixture design, machine vision, and CAD, with a BS/MS in engineering. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Design Engineer (MDE) - Brittles This role focuses on developing and optimizing manufacturing processes for key mechanical components, including CNC machining, surface finishing, glass processing, assembly, and painting. The engineer will work with suppliers, define process parameters, select equipment, and drive engineering issues to resolution, using data analysis and SPC. The role requires a BS/MS/PhD in mechanical, manufacturing, or industrial engineering and 3+ years of experience. | — | 0 |
| DevOps Engineer, G&A Solutions Engineering (GSE) DevOps Engineer role focused on building and managing tools for software releases, streamlining operations, and improving CI/CD pipelines within Apple's G&A Solutions Engineering team. The role involves working with on-prem, private, and public cloud platforms, and partnering with development and infrastructure teams. While the role mentions staying up-to-date with AI/ML technologies and has preferred qualifications related to integrating GenAI into DevOps workflows, its core function is in DevOps and enterprise solutions engineering, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Power Management Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on developing and building intelligent adaptive power management solutions for Apple's battery-operated mobile systems, aiming to optimize performance under tight power constraints and without compromising battery life. Involves system software development, algorithm enhancement, and influencing hardware design. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Design Engineer (MDE) - iPhone Manufacturing Design Engineer for iPhone, focusing on automation, fixture design, and machine vision for key manufacturing processes. Requires experience in robotics, automation, and CAD for mass production applications. | — | 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. It involves managing people, operations, and business strategies within a retail environment. The role does not involve direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 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. Responsibilities include team development, operational planning, and upholding company policies. Requires leadership experience in retail or sales. | — | 0 |
| Senior Incident Manager Senior Incident Manager for Apple Wallet, focusing on leading and improving the incident response program, ensuring fast, coordinated, and user-centric responses to issues. Requires technical fluency, operational rigor, and strong leadership under pressure. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Soft Goods Materials, Global Suppy Management This role is for a Manager of Soft Goods Materials Global Supply Management at Apple. The primary focus is on leading a team of supply managers to oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of materials, including sourcing, development, supply continuity, cost negotiation, and supplier relationships. While the role mentions supporting the identification and implementation of AI-enabled tools, the core responsibilities are in supply chain management, not AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Service Reliability Engineer, G&A Solutions Engineering (GSE) Service Reliability Engineer for Apple's G&A Solutions Engineering team, focusing on the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical production systems. Responsibilities include monitoring, incident response, automation, and collaboration with development teams. | — | 0 |
| Lab Engineer, Device Services Infrastructure This role focuses on supporting large-scale device lab infrastructure, ensuring device readiness and lab efficiency through automation, telemetry, and data-driven workflows. It involves managing a fleet of devices, troubleshooting hardware/software failures, and contributing to AI-assisted operational processes to reduce manual effort and improve decision-making. | — | 0 |
| Administrative Assistant - ASE Operations Admin Team, Apple Services Engineering Administrative Assistant role supporting senior leaders and operations within Apple Services Engineering. Responsibilities include calendar management, travel arrangements, budget oversight, procurement, and event coordination. | — | 0 |
| US-Lead Genius This role is a Lead Genius at Apple Retail, responsible for supporting the Store Leadership team, facilitating customer and team member experiences, and ensuring operational excellence at the Genius Bar. The role involves troubleshooting, diagnosing, and repairing Apple hardware and software, mentoring team members, and contributing to store goals and objectives. It requires extensive knowledge of Apple products and services, strong customer service skills, and leadership experience. | — | 0 |
| Administrative Assistant - ASE Operations Admin Team, Apple Services Engineering Administrative Assistant role supporting senior leaders and operational functions within Apple Services Engineering. Responsibilities include calendar management, travel arrangements, budget oversight, procurement, and event coordination. Requires strong organizational skills, discretion, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Product Quality Manager - Home Product Quality Manager for Home products at Apple, focusing on ensuring quality during the development cycle and enabling operational success through mass production. This role partners with engineering, product development, and operations teams, utilizing statistical knowledge, failure analysis, and program management skills. | — | 0 |
| Product Manager, Apple Pay Product Manager for Apple Pay focusing on user experience, trust, and safety, specifically in end-to-end provisioning, identification, verification, and fraud prevention. The role involves defining, building, and launching features to protect users while reducing friction, guiding cross-functional teams, and driving product strategy. | — | 0 |
| Head of Subscriber Acquisition, Apple TV This executive role leads customer growth for Apple TV's streaming business, focusing on developing and executing acquisition strategies to drive high-quality subscriber growth, maximize lifetime value, and ensure business profitability. The role oversees performance marketing, channel optimization, growth analytics, and acquisition product management, requiring a blend of digital marketing expertise, subscription economics understanding, and growth product development. | — | 0 |
| Music Publishing Payment Operations This role is responsible for managing music publishing royalty payments and reporting, involving financial modeling, reconciliation, and collaboration with various internal and external teams. It is not an AI/ML-focused role but operates within the financial and operational aspects of Apple's music services. | — | 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 ensuring operational strategies are executed within assigned areas. The role emphasizes customer interaction, team development, and achieving business priorities in a retail environment. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Design Engineer (MDE) - iPhone Manufacturing Design Engineer for iPhone, focusing on automation, fixture design, and machine vision for key manufacturing processes. Requires experience in robotics, automation, and CAD for mass production applications. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Design Engineer (MDE) - Packaging This role focuses on the R&D, selection, and implementation of manufacturing processes for consumer packaging parts and assemblies. It involves developing innovative solutions for manufacturability, environmental goals, and world-class manufacturing, leading partners in NPI development, establishing industry relationships, and using data analytics to drive decisions. The role also manages technology and material roadmaps, collaborates with design and materials engineering, demonstrates scalability of new materials and processes, and collaborates with industrial design to propose product specifications for mass production. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Design Engineer (MDE) - Brittles This role focuses on developing and optimizing manufacturing processes for key mechanical components, including CNC machining, surface finishing, glass processing, assembly, and painting. The engineer will work with suppliers, define process parameters, select equipment, and drive engineering issues to resolution, using data analysis and SPC. The role requires a BS/MS/PhD in mechanical, manufacturing, or industrial engineering and 3+ years of experience. | — | 0 |
| Software Development Engineer in Test, Wireless Technologies and Ecosystems Software Development Engineer in Test for Wireless Technologies and Ecosystems, focusing on ApplePay and related technologies. The role involves designing and building automation frameworks, developing apps and tools, and crafting test strategies. While AI-enhanced automation is mentioned as an innovative approach, the core of the role is software development and test automation for wireless technologies. | — | 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 managing managers, assisting with recruiting and training, participating in floor leadership, addressing customer concerns, and upholding company policies. It requires leadership experience in retail or sales and emphasizes skills like decision-making, communication, and team development. | — | 0 |
| US-Lead Genius This role is a Lead Genius at Apple Retail, responsible for leading a team of technicians at the Genius Bar, ensuring exceptional customer experiences, and managing day-to-day operations. The role involves troubleshooting and repairing Apple products, mentoring team members, and contributing to operational excellence. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer focused on building fundamental security services, addressing identity and authorization challenges for Apple's services. The role involves designing and implementing client libraries and SDKs in multiple languages (Java, Go, Swift, Rust, TypeScript) to bolster security posture, including request verification, token issuance, authentication, authorization, and policy management. | — | 0 |
| Apple Ads - Program Operations Specialist This role supports the end-to-end process for digital ad campaigns, including content review, trafficking, and quality assurance. It involves collaborating with various teams to optimize workflows, manage vendor relationships, enhance internal tooling with automation and AI integrations, and develop new processes. The role also requires collecting performance reporting and evaluating policy enforcement. | — | 0 |
| Mechanical Design Engineer, AppleCare Engineering - Hardware Tool & Packaging Design Mechanical Design Engineer responsible for designing and delivering electromechanical tools and fixtures for the diagnosis and repair of Apple products. This role involves the full development lifecycle from concept to production ramp, including CAD design, vendor management, testing, and global safety certification. | — | 0 |
| US-Lead This role is a Lead position in Apple Retail, focusing on facilitating customer and team member experiences, supporting sales, and ensuring operational readiness. It involves mentoring, driving sales through product expertise, organizing workflow, communicating strategy, and addressing operational needs. The role requires retail or sales experience and leadership potential. | — | 0 |
| Environmental Compliance Engineer Environmental Compliance Engineer responsible for driving product-level compliance for hardware products throughout their development cycle, partnering with various engineering and operations teams to implement worldwide environmental compliance requirements and standards. | — | 0 |
| System Experience - Notifications and Focus Engineer Software engineer to build and improve the user experience for notifications and focus features on iOS, watchOS, visionOS, and macOS. Responsibilities include feature definition, design, implementation, bug fixing, and performance optimization. | — | 0 |
| US-Manager This is a retail management role at an Apple Store, focusing on leading a team, delivering exceptional customer experiences, driving business priorities, and upholding company policies. It involves recruiting, training, coaching, and developing team members, as well as managing store operations and performance goals. The role is customer-facing and operational, not directly involved in AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Program Manager, Finance Transformation - Data Strategy Program Manager for Data Strategy within Finance Transformation at Apple. This role bridges Finance stakeholders and Engineering, focusing on shaping data strategy, governance, and ensuring delivery of data initiatives. Responsibilities include defining data requirements, establishing a data source of truth, leading data discovery, developing data dictionaries, driving data certification programs (including SOX-relevant datasets), supporting a Finance Data Council, and owning program management for data and analytics engineering initiatives. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Safari Extensions Software Engineer to help craft the future direction of extensions for web browsers, with a focus on user privacy, user experience, and developer experience. The team builds on the industry-leading WebKit engine and Apple's frameworks to deliver a set of APIs and tools that developers can use to build compelling extensions that enhance the user experience in Safari. Your impact will extend beyond Safari, as you help drive the iOS and macOS extensions platforms forward! | — | 0 |
| Component Quality Engineer This role focuses on the quality of semiconductor components and logic boards within Apple's consumer electronics. It involves auditing vendors, driving issue resolution, performing failure analysis, and ensuring manufacturing quality. While the description mentions 'data analytics machine learning' in the context of managing suppliers, the core responsibilities are in traditional hardware quality engineering, not AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Front End SW Engineer - iOS / Web - iCloud Software Engineer for iCloud Mail, Calendar & Contacts client development across iOS, macOS, and Web. Focus on user interfaces, client frameworks, performance, and power efficiency. Requires strong programming fundamentals and experience with system-level engineering. | — | 0 |
| Real Estate Specialist, Global Retail Real Estate This role is for a Real Estate Specialist at Apple, focusing on operational and strategic planning for global retail real estate. The specialist will manage planning infrastructure, analytical frameworks, and cross-functional coordination, translating complex data into executive-ready outputs. Key responsibilities include managing planning cycles (Fleet Review, Capital Plan, Five-Year Roadmap), coordinating project approval meetings, tracking cross-functional dependencies, and supporting team meetings and leadership off-sites. The role requires strong analytical, communication, and program management skills, with experience in real estate, strategy, finance, or program management. | — | 0 |
| Product Designer, Media Partner Tools Product Designer for Media Partner Tools at Apple, focusing on user experience for music artists, developers, creators, podcasters, authors, and video providers to manage their content across Apple Services. Responsibilities include creating high-fidelity designs, prototypes, and documentation for responsive websites and iOS applications, collaborating with product managers and engineers. | — | 0 |
| Product Design Producer, Music & Podcasts Product Design Producer for Apple Music and Apple Podcasts, responsible for leading design projects from conception to delivery, managing dependencies, risks, and cross-functional partnerships. | — | 0 |
| Home Reliability Engineer This role focuses on ensuring and improving the durability and reliability of home hardware products by developing and implementing reliability tests, quantifying risk, supporting failure analysis, and advising on product lifecycle decisions. It involves partnering with engineering teams, exploring new technologies, and understanding customer usage. | — | 0 |
| Technical Program Manager, Depth Technical Program Manager role focused on developing and delivering core technologies for new products, working with suppliers and internal teams to ensure high-quality, high-volume manufacturing of optical modules. Responsibilities include managing factory setup, driving production metrics, analyzing data, and identifying/mitigating technical risks. | — | 0 |
| Software Tools and Automation Engineer - Apple Services Engineering Seeking a Mid-level Data Test Automation Engineer to join the Apple Services Analytics Engineering QA team. This role focuses on ensuring the quality and integrity of customer experience data by developing automated testing tools for near real-time (NRT) and batch data pipeline systems. Requires strong experience in Big Data technologies, Python/Java/Scala, and data pipeline testing. | — | 0 |
| Quality Program Manager Quality Program Manager at Apple responsible for ensuring the quality of hardware and software products throughout the development lifecycle, coordinating cross-functional teams, and driving rigorous testing processes to meet customer expectations. | — | 0 |