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.
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| Advanced Manufacturing Engineer - iPad This role focuses on manufacturing research and development for Apple products, tackling complex problems to improve cost, quality, and delivery. It requires an engineering background, experience in new product introduction, and proficiency in Mandarin and English. Preferred qualifications include strong project management, cost reduction experience, and knowledge of optics, adhesives, and control systems. Machine Learning, JMP, Minitab, and Six Sigma experience are considered a plus. | — | 0 |
| Advanced Manufacturing Engineer - iPad This role focuses on manufacturing research and development for Apple products, tackling complex problems to improve cost, quality, and delivery. It requires engineering experience in automation and new product introduction, with a strong emphasis on problem-solving within defined practices and policies. | — | 0 |
| Site Technical Manager, iPad Site Technical Manager for iPad manufacturing in Shenzhen, China. Responsible for driving strategic direction and operational execution at the factory level, ensuring quality, production, and business goals are met. Acts as a link between manufacturing sites and internal partners for product lifecycle issues, from NPI to refurbishment. Expedites closure of technical operational issues in SMT, Final Assembly, Test, and Pack. |
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| Operations Program Manager- NPI Operations Program Manager for New Product Introduction (NPI) at Apple, focusing on leading the operational aspects of product development and launch in Asia. The role involves managing cross-functional teams, engaging with manufacturing partners, and ensuring goals for time to market, cost, quality, and availability are met. Requires strong experience in supply chain management and consumer electronics manufacturing. | — | 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 |
| Terminal Software Developer, Languages & Runtimes Software Developer role focused on enhancing the macOS Terminal application, contributing to its design, implementation, testing, and documentation. The role emphasizes improving developer workflows and user experience within a terminal-based environment. | — | 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 |
| FR-Manager Retail store manager responsible for leading a team, driving performance, and delivering exceptional customer experiences. Focuses on coaching, development, operational strategies, and upholding company policies. | — | 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 |
| 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 |
| DE-Manager (m/f/d) 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, recruiting, training, and developing team members, as well as managing operational strategies and customer escalations. The position requires retail leadership experience and strong communication and decision-making skills. | — | 0 |
| CA-Senior Manager Senior Manager in Apple Retail responsible for creating a positive customer interaction environment, driving performance goals, developing managers, and supporting business strategies. This role involves leading a team, assisting with recruiting and training, participating in floor leadership, addressing concerns, executing operational strategy, and upholding company policies. Requires 3 years of leadership experience in retail or sales. | — | 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 |
| Supply Demand Planner - 18 months contract This role is for a Supply Demand Planner on the EMEIA Supply Demand Management team at Apple's European HQ in Cork, Ireland. The team is responsible for end-to-end product planning for the EMEIA market, ensuring products are available to customers. Responsibilities include collaborating cross-functionally, strategizing inventory replenishment, leading production planning, analyzing demand patterns, coordinating supply movements, tracking KPIs, building stakeholder relationships, and implementing continuous improvement initiatives. | — | 0 |
| BE-Manager This is a retail store management position at Apple, focused on leading a team to deliver exceptional customer experiences, drive business priorities, and uphold company policies. The role involves coaching, developing, and retaining a diverse team, participating in customer interactions, and managing operational strategies within assigned areas of the store. It requires leadership experience in retail or a related field, proficiency in English and the local language, and availability to work flexible hours. | — | 0 |
| APO Logistics Manager Logistics Manager for Apple's APO operations in China/Southeast Asia, overseeing OEM back-dock operations, transportation, and freight. Responsibilities include managing key metrics, supplier performance, cost-effectiveness, carbon neutrality, and team development. Requires experience in logistics, supply chain, and people management. | — | 0 |
| Global Supply Manager, Mac This role is for a Global Supply Manager for Mac enclosures at Apple. The primary responsibilities include sourcing, manufacturing development, execution, and production of mechanical enclosure parts. The role involves managing suppliers, developing cost strategies, cross-functional support, on-site manufacturing partner management, schedule and capacity planning, and risk mitigation using data-based analysis. A Master's or Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering is required, with an MBA being a plus. Experience in supply chain management, program management, and international travel is necessary. Preferred qualifications include knowledge of costing, various mechanical manufacturing techniques, and optionally, experience in data analysis, coding, and machine learning. | — | 0 |
| Plastic Tooling Engineer Plastic Tooling Engineer responsible for plastic tool development, including part design support, concept and process review, DFM review, and tool T0-Tf. The role involves managing molding trials, establishing POR process parameters, troubleshooting, and collaborating with cross-functional teams and suppliers to ensure product quality and manufacturing 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 |
| 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 |
| Enclosure Global Supply Manager, Brittles This role is for a Global Supply Manager responsible for sourcing, manufacturing development, execution, and production of mechanical enclosure parts for Apple. It involves managing suppliers, cost strategies, cross-functional support, build support, on-time delivery, and risk mitigation. The ideal candidate has a background in Supply Chain Management, mechanical engineering, and experience in multinational environments. | — | 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 |
| Site Reliability Engineer, Software Delivery Site Reliability Engineer focused on the software build and delivery process for Apple's operating systems and applications. Responsibilities include ensuring service reliability, monitoring SLOs, incident response, troubleshooting, and collaborating with engineering teams on best practices and technical decisions. Requires strong Linux administration, microservices architecture understanding, and Kubernetes exposure. Preferred qualifications include CI/CD experience and development skills in Go, Python, Swift. | — | 0 |
| Supply Demand Planner This role is for a Supply Demand Planner on the EMEIA Supply Demand Management team at Apple's European HQ in Cork, Ireland. The team is responsible for end-to-end product planning for the EMEIA market, ensuring products are available to customers. Responsibilities include collaborating cross-functionally, strategizing inventory replenishment, leading production planning, analyzing demand patterns, coordinating supply movements, tracking KPIs, building stakeholder relationships, and implementing continuous improvement initiatives. Minimum qualifications include significant experience in supply chain or an analytical role, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, proficiency in MS Excel, and excellent communication skills. Preferred qualifications include strong interpersonal skills, cross-functional collaboration experience, business acumen, innovative problem-solving, and a relevant bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. | — | 0 |
| NPI Operations Program Manager This role is for an NPI Operations Program Manager at Apple, focusing on leading the operational aspects of new product introductions in Asia. The manager will drive issue resolution, supply chain design, schedule, cost, quality, and availability goals, engaging with manufacturing partners and leading cross-functional teams. The role requires influencing product design teams with production expertise and communicating project status. While knowledge of data analysis and machine learning is a plus, it is not the core focus of the role. | — | 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 |
| 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 |