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.
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| Manufacturing Quality Engineer - iPhone Manufacturing Quality Engineer for iPhone at Apple, focusing on developing and implementing quality inspection tools, control strategies, and manufacturing methods for new products. Responsibilities include partnering with cross-functional teams, evaluating designs, compiling data for specifications, and managing quality engineering functions at supplier locations. | — | 0 |
| Apple Business - Major Accounts Lead, Austria This role is for an Apple Business Major Accounts Lead in Austria, focusing on driving business transformation for large enterprise customers using Apple products and services. The role involves developing account strategies, collaborating with partners, creating demand, forecasting, and managing fulfillment logistics. It requires consultative selling experience, strong presentation skills, integrity, and customer focus. Fluency in German and English is essential. A technical background is a plus. | — | 0 |
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| Director, Head of Legal Discovery & Strategy This role is for a Director, Head of Legal Discovery & Strategy at Apple. The primary focus is on leading the global Discovery Program, providing strategic advice, and building scaled operational solutions. While the role involves advising on the use of AI/ML and other emerging technologies to improve discovery compliance and efficiency, the core function is legal strategy and program management, not the direct development or deployment of AI models. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Art Director, Interactive Apple is seeking a Sr. Art Director for its Marcom Interactive Experiences group. This role will be responsible for envisioning and building best-in-class marketing and commerce design systems for Apple's digital platforms, including Apple.com, Apple Store App, and Apple Store Online. The Sr. Art Director will collaborate with creative leads and technical disciplines to create design systems that scale from iOS to Web, guiding projects from concept through production and delivery. The role requires strong strategic thinking, systematic design, and the ability to navigate complex stakeholder relationships. | — | 0 |
| WWRFO Operations Excellence Program Manager This role is for an Operations Excellence Program Manager at Apple, focusing on ensuring flawless product availability for Apple customers and channels globally. The role involves managing systems, programs, and execution frameworks for NPI launches, purchasing strategies, and promotional programs. Key responsibilities include leading OE execution for NPI launches, transforming operational strategies into programs, owning the WW execution tool and system portfolio, and partnering with various teams to identify gaps and drive process improvements. The role requires strong program management, supply chain, and communication skills, with a focus on driving complex global programs in a retail fulfillment operations environment. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer, Customer Systems Site Reliability Engineer role focused on designing, building, and delivering scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure for customer-facing applications and services. Responsibilities include infrastructure as code, automation, intelligent monitoring, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires experience with Kubernetes, scripting (Shell, Python, Ansible), monitoring tools, and networking protocols. | — | 0 |
| Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst, SEAR Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst role at Apple, focusing on analyzing cyber threats, understanding advanced actors and exploit development, and collaborating with security researchers and engineers to develop and operationalize security methods and technologies. The role emphasizes driving security engineering decisions and protecting users across Apple's ecosystem. | — | 0 |
| Sr Site Reliability Engineer, Customer Systems Site Reliability Engineer for Customer Systems at Apple, focusing on designing, building, and delivering highly scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure. The role involves automation, intelligent monitoring, and CI/CD pipeline management for customer-facing applications and services. | — | 0 |
| Partner Content Manager Content Manager for Apple Wallet, Payments, and Commerce (WPC) Partner Enablement team, focusing on creating third-party facing content and communications for global Apple Pay and Apple Wallet communities. Requires experience in digital content production, collaboration with creative and technical teams, and managing large-scale projects. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Design Engineer - Materials This role focuses on developing and implementing high-precision material manufacturing processes for aluminum within Apple's supply chain. It involves collaborating with design, quality, and supply management teams to meet product goals, optimizing fabrication equipment and processes, and conducting data-driven optimization and root cause analysis. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in metallurgy, materials science, or related fields, and proficiency in English and Mandarin. | — | 0 |
| Enclosure Global Supply Manager, Brittles Global Supply Manager for mechanical enclosures, responsible for sourcing, manufacturing development, execution, and production. This role involves managing suppliers, capacity planning, production strategy, program management, risk mitigation, and cost strategy. Requires a degree in Engineering and demonstrated Supply Chain Management experience. | — | 0 |
| Enclosure Global Supply Manager, iPhone This role is for a Global Supply Manager for iPhone enclosures at Apple. The responsibilities include sourcing, manufacturing development, cost negotiation, cross-functional support, build support, on-time delivery, and risk mitigation for mechanical enclosure parts. The role requires strong program management and supply chain management skills, with experience in multinational environments. Preferred qualifications include knowledge of costing, mechanical manufacturing, and data analysis/machine learning (as a plus). | — | 0 |
| Enclosure Global Supply Manager, iPhone This role is for a Global Supply Manager for iPhone enclosures at Apple. The responsibilities include sourcing, manufacturing development, cost strategy, cross-functional support, build support, on-time delivery, and risk mitigation. The ideal candidate will have strong program management and supply chain management skills, with experience in multinational environments. Experience in data analysis, coding, and machine learning is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Enclosure Global Supply Manager, iPhone This role is for a Global Supply Manager for iPhone enclosures at Apple. The responsibilities include sourcing, manufacturing development, cost negotiation, cross-functional support, build support, on-time delivery, and risk mitigation for mechanical enclosure parts. The role requires strong program management and supply chain management skills, with experience in multinational environments. Preferred qualifications include knowledge of costing, mechanical manufacturing, and data analysis/machine learning (as a plus). | — | 0 |
| CapEx Operations Program Manager This role manages the day-to-day activities for capital equipment deployment in iPhone Operations, focusing on program objectives, issue resolution with contract manufacturers, and asset lifecycle management. It involves cross-functional collaboration, budget planning, and ensuring equipment is maintained and traceable. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manufacturing Design Engineer-Enclosure Parts This role focuses on the manufacturing design of enclosure components, specifically secondary processes for plastic, rubber, and metal parts. It involves process development, equipment qualification, system setup, and working with cross-functional teams to ensure manufacturability, quality, and timely delivery of components from prototype to mass production. | — | 0 |
| Invoicing Compliance Team Lead This role is a Team Lead for the Invoicing Compliance team within Apple's Global Business Solutions (GBS) group. The primary focus is on overseeing the end-to-end invoicing lifecycle for the Americas, ensuring billing completeness and accuracy. Key responsibilities include managing SOX controls, partnering with the Global Process Optimization (GPO) team, and leading a team of billing analysts. The role requires strong analytical skills, experience with ERP systems like SAP, and a background in finance or accounting. | — | 0 |
| Systems Engineer - Enterprise & Education Sales Systems Engineer for Enterprise & Education Sales at Apple, focusing on customer success and IT infrastructure transformation through Apple technologies. Requires expertise in MDM, mobile hardware/software, network infrastructure, and Apple platforms, with consultative pre-sales engineering experience. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer iCloud- Apple Services Engineering Software Engineer role focused on maintaining and enhancing internal business-critical applications for iCloud Tools Engineering. The role involves platform modernization and developing intelligent features leveraging Gen AI, with a focus on backend systems, APIs, micro-services, and user interfaces. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Quality Engineer - iPhone This role focuses on manufacturing quality engineering for iPhone production, involving the development of quality inspection tools, process control, data evaluation for specifications, and collaboration with cross-functional teams and suppliers to ensure product quality and yield at scale. | — | 0 |
| Advanced Manufacturing Engineer - Audio This role focuses on designing, developing, and scaling precision assembly and measurement processes for Apple products. It involves researching and implementing novel automation technologies, owning engineering challenges from concept to production, and collaborating with cross-functional teams and global partners. The role requires expertise in manufacturing equipment, automation solutions, statistical tools, and failure analysis, with a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant engineering field and at least 3 years of experience. | — | 0 |
| iPad & Input Product Design Engineering Program Manager Program Manager for iPad & Input Product Design Engineering at Apple, leading the technical execution of hardware development for next-generation iPads and input devices. Focuses on end-to-end program strategy, risk mitigation, cross-functional team alignment, and manufacturing readiness for highly integrated consumer electronics. | — | 0 |
| EHS/Machine Safety Engineer - Environment and Supply Chain Innovation (ESCI) This role focuses on EHS (Environment, Health, and Safety) and Machine Safety Engineering within Apple's supply chain, specifically for emerging manufacturing technologies. The engineer will be responsible for developing and implementing safety initiatives, conducting hazard assessments, and creating safety protocols to ensure compliance and mitigate risks in the supply chain. While the role mentions a "data driven approach" and "data-driven insights," the core function is safety engineering and risk management in an industrial context, not the development or direct application of AI/ML models. | — | 0 |
| Adhesive & Laser Lab Engineer - Advanced Process Lab This role focuses on developing, optimizing, and sustaining precision adhesive joint systems and laser processing operations within an advanced manufacturing lab. It involves materials science, process engineering, experimental design, and collaboration with cross-functional teams and suppliers. The role requires hands-on experience with adhesive processes and laser equipment, with a focus on continuous improvement and documentation. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Infrastructure,SWE Developer Foundations Software Engineer focused on building and improving large-scale distributed systems and tools for Apple's internal software engineers, supporting their development and testing lifecycle. | — | 0 |
| Advanced Manufacturing Engineer, Desktop This role focuses on manufacturing research and development for desktop products, aiming to solve complex problems impacting cost, quality, and delivery. Responsibilities include technical leadership, process development, optimization, and implementation of new technologies. The role involves design for manufacturability, product engineering, process engineering, and failure/data analysis, utilizing Six Sigma principles. It requires a BSME or equivalent and offers opportunities for mentorship and project leadership. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Ads Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and maintaining a high-availability, low-latency ad serving platform. Responsibilities include leading cross-functional teams, designing and implementing performant distributed systems, and working with advertising domain experts to handle various ad use cases. Requires strong experience in distributed systems, microservices, and Java, with a focus on public cloud technologies. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Financial Analyst - AppleCare Finance This role is for a Sr. Financial Analyst within AppleCare Finance, focusing on financial leadership and decision support for AppleCare distribution centers in the Americas. Responsibilities include analyzing, managing, and reporting on operational costs, developing financial models, performing scenario analyses, and leading forecasting and close activities. The role requires strong analytical and financial modeling skills, experience with enterprise software, and the ability to influence business partners. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Software Engineer - Apple Cloud Product Services Software Engineer role focused on building and optimizing high-scale Java services for Apple Cloud Product Services, impacting millions of users daily. Responsibilities include system architecture, technical direction, data modeling, API definition, caching strategies, and developing/deploying/optimizing distributed systems and micro-services. | — | 0 |
| Advanced Battery Manufacturing Engineer This role focuses on the development and implementation of key production processes and quality for Apple batteries in a high-volume manufacturing environment. It involves close collaboration with various internal teams and external suppliers to ensure product design compliance and manufacturing capability. The responsibilities include material and cell process development, new product introduction, supplier assessment, and driving process improvements. | — | 0 |
| Senior Legal Counsel - Commercial Litigation Senior Legal Counsel specializing in Commercial Litigation for Apple's London office, managing complex multi-jurisdictional cases across Europe and beyond. Requires extensive experience in consumer and commercial litigation, strategic case management, and strong communication skills. | — | 0 |
| Video Creative - Retail Engagement, Marketing & Merchandising This role is for a Video Creative within Apple's Retail Engagement, Marketing & Merchandising team in Shanghai. The individual will be responsible for creating digital content for social media, short films, and campaigns, with a focus on video content shot on iPhone. The role involves leading a creative studio, partnering with cross-functional teams, and managing the content creation process from idea to execution. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Hardware Engineering Operations Software Engineer role focused on developing internal applications, frameworks, and services that enhance the engineering lifecycle at Apple. The role involves building scalable software solutions, workflow automation, and web-based tools, with an emphasis on full-stack development, data pipelines, and APIs. While AI is mentioned as a component of the applications, the core craft of the role is software engineering for internal tools, not direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 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 |
| Software Engineer, Device Management, CoreOS Software Engineer role focused on device management technologies for Apple devices in educational and business environments. The role involves influencing product features, implementing OS-level functionality, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enable efficient configuration and management of Apple devices. Key responsibilities include improving the core MDM networking protocol and functionality, and collaborating on device management solutions. Requires experience with C-like programming languages and concurrent programming concepts. Familiarity with MDM and Declarative Device Management is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Darwin Server, Core OS Software Engineer on the Darwin Server team at Apple, focusing on developing system software for Apple's operating systems, particularly for server and cloud environments. Responsibilities include enabling server application packaging, integrating with cloud orchestration, improving observability, and developing security/privacy features for Private Cloud Compute. Requires experience with UNIX-like systems and OS architecture. | — | 0 |
| AIML Data Operations - Site Project Representative The AIML Data Operations team is seeking an experienced Site Project Representative (SPR) to drive critical program projects that provide data at scale for engineering teams to build robust AIML features for millions of customers worldwide. The role involves developing project elements, creating and managing project plans, recruiting participants, and partnering with operations stakeholders. Responsibilities include managing resource plans, coordinating project rollouts, providing technical support, and working with tool owners to update tools. | — | 0 |
| AIML Data Operations - Site Project Representative This role is for a Site Project Representative within Apple's AIML Data Operations team. The primary responsibilities involve managing critical program projects for data at scale, developing project plans, recruiting participants, and partnering with operations stakeholders. The role requires strong organizational, analytical, and decision-making skills, with a focus on ensuring data accuracy and timeliness. It is not a hands-on AI/ML development role but supports the data operations that feed into AI/ML algorithm development. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Optimization Engineer This role focuses on manufacturing optimization and continuous improvement within an industrial setting, utilizing Lean Six-Sigma methodologies. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams and suppliers to enhance plant operations, implement improvement projects, and drive efficiency in production processes. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Quality Assurance The Manufacturing Quality Assurance role at Apple in Shenzhen focuses on ensuring high-quality requirements are implemented and maintained within the Apple supplier chain. This involves setting up compliance audits, sharing best practices, collaborating with cross-functional teams, leading initiatives like data integration systems, and managing contractors. The role requires a Bachelor's degree, 2+ years of experience in manufacturing process and quality control, and familiarity with mechanical quality and reliability concepts. | — | 0 |
| Front End SW Engineer - iOS / Web - iCloud Software Engineer for Apple's iCloud Mail, Calendar & Contacts client team, focusing on iOS, macOS, and Web applications. The role involves building user interfaces, client frameworks, and ensuring performance and power efficiency. It requires strong programming fundamentals, experience with web service APIs, and a focus on quality and testing. The position is for a mature product in the consumer domain. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Design Engineer (MDE) - iPhone Manufacturing Design Engineer for iPhone at Apple, focusing on developing and optimizing key mechanical manufacturing processes across the supply chain. This role involves defining processes, selecting equipment, driving engineering issues to resolution, and utilizing data analysis for process improvements in areas like CNC machining, surface finishing, glass processing, assembly, and painting. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer, Enterprise Technology Services Site Reliability Engineer for Enterprise Technology Services at Apple, focusing on automating operations, optimizing infrastructure, and ensuring system reliability, scalability, and performance. The role involves working with application teams and requires experience in SRE, DevOps, software engineering, and scripting languages. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Freeform Application Software Engineer role focused on building features for the Freeform application on iOS and Mac. Responsibilities include UI development, integrating system technologies, optimizing performance, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires experience in Swift/Objective-C and Apple platforms. | — | 0 |
| FR-Store Leader This role is for a Store Leader at Apple Retail, responsible for leading a team to deliver exceptional customer experiences, achieve business priorities, and foster an inclusive environment. The role involves coaching, developing leaders, managing store operations, and analyzing business information. It requires significant leadership experience in retail or sales. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Design Engineer Manufacturing Design Engineer for iPhone enclosure machining and surface treatment processes. Responsibilities include leading selection, implementation, and optimization of manufacturing processes, designing processes based on product requirements, selecting equipment, designing fixtures, conducting experiments, and working with suppliers to develop and qualify equipment. The role also involves leading cycle time reduction, defining process controls, and providing leadership during development and production ramp. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Design Engineer Manufacturing Design Engineer for iPhone enclosure machining and surface treatment processes. Responsibilities include leading selection, implementation, and optimization of manufacturing processes, designing processes based on product requirements, selecting equipment, designing fixtures, conducting experiments, and working with suppliers to develop and qualify equipment. The role also involves leading cycle time reduction, defining process controls, and providing leadership during development and production ramp. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Design Engineer - Laser Lead iPhone manufacturing process selection, implementation, and optimization for mechanical enclosure machining and surface treatment. This involves designing processes, selecting equipment, developing fixtures, and driving improvements in capability and efficiency, with a focus on meeting product drawing and cosmetic requirements. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Enterprise & Education Frameworks, CoreOS Software Engineer role focused on building systems for configuring and managing Apple devices in educational and business environments. The role involves developing OS-level functionality, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and influencing product features related to device management and user experience. | — | 0 |
