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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| Operations Program Analyst, EMEIA — 11 Month Contract This role is an Operations Program Analyst for Apple's Distribution Centre Operations in the EMEIA region. The primary focus is on program governance, vendor partnerships, data-driven insights, and continuous improvement within the distribution network. While the role involves identifying opportunities to automate and improve processes, including through AI tooling, it does not involve building or shipping AI models or agents. The role requires strong analytical, communication, and project management skills, with a focus on operational excellence and managing a portfolio of initiatives. | — | 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. | — |
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| Apple Ukraine & CIS - Kazakhstan Account Manager Account Manager for Apple in Kazakhstan, responsible for growing business with channel partners, driving sales targets, and ensuring a great customer experience within the Apple ecosystem. This role involves developing account plans, managing forecasts, implementing marketing programs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to maximize sales of Apple products. | — | 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 |
| UK-Manager This is a retail management role at Apple, focusing on leading a team to deliver exceptional customer experiences, drive business priorities, and achieve store performance goals. It involves coaching, developing, and retaining a diverse team, participating in customer interactions, and upholding company policies. The role requires experience in leading others in retail or a related field and emphasizes strong communication, decision-making, and conflict resolution skills. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer (Distributed Systems, Java) Software Engineer role focused on building and improving features and services for Apple's digital content platforms (Podcasts, Apple Music, etc.). The role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing large-scale distributed data systems, data pipelines, and data stores, with a focus on personalization features, customer experience, and privacy. Requires strong Java server engineering skills and experience with distributed systems and large data technologies. | — | 0 |
| FullStack Software Engineer Full Stack Software Engineer for Apple's APO Business Process Re-engineering team, focusing on designing and delivering data-driven applications for the Apple supply chain. Requires strong skills in big data, backend, and frontend web technologies, with experience in ETL/Spark/Flink/Hadoop. | — | 0 |
| FullStack Software Engineer Full Stack Software Engineer for Apple's APO Business Process Re-engineering team, focusing on designing and delivering data-driven applications for the Apple supply chain. Requires strong skills in big data, backend, and frontend web technologies, with experience in ETL/Spark/Flink/Hadoop. | — | 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 |
| Partner Communications Manager This role is for a Partner Communications Manager at Apple in Greater China, focusing on empowering indirect channel partners to integrate Apple-led campaigns and develop innovative communication plans. The manager will drive strategy, oversee execution, and manage fiscal planning for partner communications, ensuring alignment with Apple's brand standards. The role requires bilingual proficiency in Chinese and English, extensive experience in marketing communications, and a deep understanding of the Chinese digital and offline platforms. | — | 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 |
| Product Quality Engineer Product Quality Engineer role focused on end-to-end supplier quality control for consumer products, including incoming inspection, assembly, testing, and field returns. Requires collaboration with internal teams and suppliers, driving robust solutions for quality issues, performing audits, and communicating performance summaries. Experience with AIML on quality control is a plus. | — | 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 |
| Software Engineer - Peformance Analytics Software Engineer role focused on performance analytics for third-party apps (Apple TV, Apple Music). The role involves leveraging existing data infrastructure to provide insights that drive product decisions, empowering engineers with performance data. Requires strong software engineering and data science skills, with an emphasis on shipping tools and building frontend interfaces. | — | 0 |
| Apple Channel Store Territory Lead This role is for an Apple Channel Store Territory Lead responsible for driving business results, enhancing brand awareness, and delivering an exceptional customer experience through collaboration with store teams and regional leadership. The role involves product demonstrations, customer engagement, and influencing partners to achieve sales targets. | — | 0 |
| Enclosure Global Supply Manager, iPad Supply Chain Manager for iPad enclosures, responsible for sourcing, manufacturing development, execution, and production. This role involves managing suppliers, cost strategies, cross-functional support, build support, on-time delivery, and risk mitigation. Requires experience in Supply Chain Management and a degree in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering. | — | 0 |
| Technical Program Manager, Camera Module Technical Program Manager for Camera Module development, focusing on manufacturing, process, test, automation, and quality engineering. The role involves managing teams, working with suppliers, identifying and mitigating technical risks, and ensuring successful product introduction and mass production. Requires experience in camera/optics manufacturing and mega factory techniques. | — | 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 |
| App Review Specialist - Greek speaking. This role involves screening apps for the App Store based on technical, content, and design criteria, ensuring they are reliable, perform as expected, and are free of offensive material. It requires language proficiency in English and Greek, attention to detail, and the ability to make sound decisions under tight timelines. | — | 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 |
| UK-Senior Manager Senior Manager role in Apple Retail focused on leading a team, driving store performance, and ensuring exceptional customer service. Responsibilities include team development, operational strategy execution, and upholding company policies. Requires leadership experience in retail or sales. | — | 0 |
| SE-Senior Manager Senior Manager role in Apple Retail focused on leading a team, driving customer interactions, achieving performance goals, and executing operational strategies. Requires leadership experience in retail or sales, with preferred qualifications in decision-making, communication, and team development. This is a people management and operational role within a retail environment. | — | 0 |
| Consumer Channel Account Executive This role is for a Consumer Channel Account Executive at Apple in London, UK. The primary responsibility is to drive sales performance for iPhone and attach products by building relationships with partners, negotiating programs, and developing capabilities to ensure a great customer experience. The role involves developing account plans aligned with partner strategies, identifying growth opportunities, and monitoring key performance indicators to support sales forecasts. Experience in consultative selling, channel growth strategies, and account executive roles for mobile devices or hardware companies is required. Preferred qualifications include understanding business financials, market analysis, customer-centricity, strong negotiation and influencing skills, teamwork, resilience, excellent communication and presentation abilities, and strategic thinking to create competitive solutions. | — | 0 |
| Account Executive - VAD (Maghreb) Account Executive for Apple products in the Maghreb region, responsible for growing business with channel partners, driving sales targets, and developing account plans. This role involves collaborating with senior stakeholders, understanding market trends, managing forecasts, and implementing marketing programs. | — | 0 |
| Bank as a Channel (BaaC) Account Manager Account Manager role focused on managing and growing sales relationships with banking and financial institution partners to drive sales of Apple products, services, and accessories through the banking channel. The role involves developing account plans, driving competitive positioning, increasing product attach rates, and collaborating with internal and external teams to execute joint programs. | — | 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 |
| CA-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 leadership, team development, operational execution, and maintaining company policies within a retail environment. | — | 0 |
| iPad Hardware System EE Seeking an iPad Hardware System EE in Shenzhen, China, to own entire products from concept to ship. Responsibilities include electrical design, bringup, debug, validation, and factory build support, collaborating with various engineering teams. Requires BS/MS EE with 3-5+ years experience, strong EE fundamentals, and experience in circuit design, simulation, schematic capture, PCB layout, and lab equipment. | — | 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 |