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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sr. Applied ML Engineer, Apple Services Localization Engineering This role focuses on designing, building, and shipping machine translation and LLM-based systems for Apple Services Localization. It involves taking models from prototype to production, owning serving, inference, and data pipelines, integrating ML models into existing systems, driving applied research (LLM fine-tuning, model compression, agentic workflows, RAG), and building evaluation infrastructure. The role requires strong software engineering skills and experience with deep learning toolkits, large models, and distributed production systems. | ShipServe | 8 |
| Machine Learning Engineer Machine Learning Engineer at Apple working on Siri, Spotlight, and Safari search features. The role involves large-scale machine learning and deep learning for query understanding and ranking, using techniques like word embeddings, online learning, and NLP. It also includes building infrastructure for processing web-scale data, deploying metrics and evaluations, and presenting results. Experience with RAG is preferred. |
| ShipAgent |
| 8 |
| Computer Vision and Machine Learning Engineer, Creativity Apps This role focuses on building and delivering state-of-the-art machine learning models for creative editing tools, specifically in computer vision and generative AI. The engineer will be responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of ML-enabled features, from data collection and model design to training, evaluation, and deployment within applications. | Ship | 8 |
| Director of Algorithms, Ads Engineering Director of Algorithms for Apple Ads, leading applied scientists and ML engineers to build and scale intelligence for ads delivery. Focuses on retrieval, ranking, auction, and budget optimization systems at massive scale, balancing research innovation with operational excellence and privacy constraints. This role involves defining strategy, roadmap, and execution for ML systems that optimize advertiser outcomes and user relevance. | ShipServe | 8 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Search & Knowledge Platform Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Apple focused on Search and Knowledge Platform, developing next-generation Search and Question Answering systems using LLMs and RAG. Responsibilities include query understanding, retrieval, ranking, fine-tuning, and deploying models at scale, with a focus on production systems and online inference optimization. | ShipPost-train | 8 |
| ML Applied Scientist, Apple Services Engineering AI/ML ML Applied Scientist role focused on designing, developing, and deploying AI/ML solutions for Apple's services, including LLMs and Agentic AI, to enhance user content discovery. The role involves research, prototyping, production deployment, A/B testing, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. | ShipPost-train | 8 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Generative AI) Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on Generative AI, responsible for converting high-level goals into concrete requirements, implementing, evaluating, and shipping AI/ML technologies for data quality or user-facing features. Requires experience in building large-scale ML systems, generative AI models, and working with large datasets, with a strong emphasis on shipping production-ready solutions. | ShipPost-train | 8 |
| AIML - Applied ML Engineer, Responsible AI This role focuses on designing, building, and deploying production-grade ML models for abuse detection across multiple modalities (text, image, audio) to protect Apple's ecosystem. It involves owning the full ML lifecycle, driving data strategy, architecting monitoring systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver security solutions. | ShipPost-train | 8 |
| Software QA Engineer - Automation, Siri Software QA Engineer focused on automation for Siri, Apple's AI assistant. The role involves ensuring software frameworks and environments are updated for new AI capabilities and hardware platforms, partnering with development teams, and owning automation support. It requires expertise in Python, Bash, or Swift with ML/NLP libraries, developing test plans, and building robust testing frameworks using machine learning models and LLMs. | Ship | 7 |
| Advanced Manufacturing Engineer(iPhone) - Smart Manufacturing This role focuses on driving manufacturing research and development for iPhone final assembly line automation, integrating AI/ML and LLMs into smart manufacturing processes. The engineer will lead technical automation projects, develop intelligent testing methods, and conduct data/failure analysis to optimize production efficiency and product quality. | Ship | 7 |
| International Engineering Lead - Intelligence Features International Engineering Lead for Intelligence Features at Apple, focusing on driving and delivering end-user intelligence features for international locales across multiple platforms. The role involves leading cross-functional teams, assessing feature internationalization, improving evaluation results, advocating for international ML best practices, building tools, and exploring LLMs for localization tasks. It requires experience with ML, LLMs, NLP, and leading international software engineering projects, with a focus on shipping AI-powered features to millions of global customers. | ShipPost-train | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Apple Services Engineering Machine Learning Engineer at Apple Services Engineering focused on designing, building, and deploying machine learning pipelines for personalization systems across Apple's media offerings. The role involves scaling recommender systems for billions of users, optimizing model inference, and implementing evaluation frameworks. Requires strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with large-scale ML models and big data technologies. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer Machine Learning Engineer for iCloud Mail team at Apple, focusing on building end-to-end ML-based product solutions to improve user experiences, anti-abuse, and customized mail features. Requires strong production experience in training and evaluating ML models, building scalable services, and working with big data technologies like Spark. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Senior Search Machine Learning Engineer Senior Machine Learning Engineer for Apple Maps, focusing on improving search quality using ML and Generative AI. The role involves developing algorithms for query understanding, intent modeling, ranking, and semantic search, as well as building data pipelines and collaborating with other teams. Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning is required, along with strong programming and ML framework knowledge. | Ship | 7 |
| Advanced Manufacturing Engineer(iPhone) - Smart Manufacturing This role focuses on driving manufacturing research and development for iPhone final assembly line automation, integrating AI/ML and smart manufacturing technologies. The engineer will lead automation projects, leverage AI/ML and LLMs to optimize processes, and develop data-driven methods. Responsibilities include spearheading AI/ML adoption, leading core engineering projects, developing intelligent testing methods, conducting advanced data analysis, and mentoring teams on AI-augmented manufacturing. | Ship | 7 |
| Computational Photography/Computer Vision Machine Learning Engineer, Camera & Photos Develop and train deep learning models for image restoration and fusion applications to improve Apple's camera imaging pipeline, contributing to consumer products. | Ship | 7 |
| Engineering Program Manager, Search Quality and Infrastructure, Apple Services Engineering Engineering Program Manager to drive the execution of large-scale, machine learning-powered search products and infrastructure at Apple, focusing on improving user experience and quality for over a billion customers. | Ship | 7 |
| Machine Learning Research Engineer, Camera & Photos Machine Learning Research Engineer focused on image processing pipelines and innovative algorithms for Apple's mobile devices (iPhone, iPad). The role involves leveraging research in image processing, statistics, and computer vision to design, develop, and improve imaging technologies, turning concepts into commercially viable algorithms for Apple's camera systems. | Ship | 7 |
| Computer Vision Software Engineer — Camera Technologies & Systems Develop and ship computer vision, image processing, and machine learning software features for Apple's camera technologies, impacting millions of iPhone users. | Ship | 7 |
| Applied Scientist Applied Scientist role at Apple focusing on causal inference, statistics, and machine learning to optimize marketing channels for consumer services. The role involves designing, developing, and deploying solutions using observational testing, counterfactual modeling, and lifetime value estimation, working with large-scale, privacy-focused datasets. Key responsibilities include engineering end-to-end causal inference products, analyzing data for automation and modeling opportunities, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and staying updated on research advancements. | Ship | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Strategic Data Solutions (Fulfillment, Supply Chain, Logistics domain exp) Machine Learning Engineer role focused on applying ML and optimization to supply chain and logistics problems for Apple's Fulfillment Operations team. The role involves designing, building, deploying, and maintaining end-to-end data pipelines and models to improve operational efficiency and security, with a focus on productionizing and owning the stack. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Ads Auction Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple focused on building and optimizing the core auction system for their advertising platform. The role involves applying machine learning and auction theory to drive optimal outcomes for advertisers and users, working with large-scale systems and production code. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Ads Bidding & Pacing Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple focused on Ads Bidding & Pacing. The role involves designing and building scalable ML solutions for ad optimization, budget, and bid strategies to improve campaign performance and user experience. Requires experience in ML, quantitative optimization, production code development, and large-scale experimentation, ideally within the ads, recommendations, or search relevance domains. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer – Ads Predictions Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple Ads focusing on building and optimizing core ML models for ad predictions, user interaction, click-through rate, and conversion rate. The role involves deep learning, information retrieval, large-scale modeling, and exploring LLMs and Reinforcement Learning for ad prediction systems across Apple's App Store and News platforms. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Staff Data Science Engineer, Siri Runtime Systems and Interaction Staff Data Science Engineer for Siri's Attention and Invocation team, focusing on making Siri and Apple products more intelligent. The role involves leading ML solution development, establishing best practices for model validation and monitoring, driving technical decisions for ML/AI initiatives, and collaborating with stakeholders to define requirements and shape the data science roadmap. | Ship | 7 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer – Ads Platform Staff Machine Learning Engineer for Apple Ads Platform, focusing on building and deploying ML systems and data pipelines to enhance advertiser trust and invalid traffic protections. The role involves defining an innovation roadmap, implementing robust CI/CD, feature stores, and streaming infrastructure, running A/B experiments, and optimizing performance for product quality, user experience, latency, and cost. | Ship | 7 |
| Computer Vision Software Engineer, Camera & Photos Develop and extend software features for iPhone camera, focusing on computer vision, image processing, and machine learning to deliver high-quality photos and videos. This role involves prototyping algorithms, working cross-functionally, and implementing solutions for new camera capabilities across Apple devices. | Ship | 7 |
| Applied ML Science Manager The Applied ML Science Manager will lead a team focused on Causal Inference and AIML solutions for Apple's services, impacting business decisions and marketing optimization. The role involves developing and deploying cutting-edge solutions, defining technical vision, and fostering a collaborative team culture. Responsibilities include leading scientists and engineers, overseeing technical strategy, managing projects, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires a Master's degree, leadership experience, and expertise in Causal Inference techniques, ML, and programming languages. | Ship | 7 |
| Industrial Machine Learning Engineer This role focuses on applying machine learning and computer vision to industrial problems in manufacturing, specifically for inspection equipment. The engineer will develop and deploy ML models to judge millions of units daily, identify patterns and anomalies in data, and build toolkits for applying ML and statistical tools. Responsibilities include data analysis, software development in Python/Java/C++, and working with inspection systems. The role requires strong ML/CV experience in industrial settings, proficiency in Python and ML algorithms, and experience with image processing. It involves developing solutions from inception to production, with a focus on shipping AI-powered products for quality control in manufacturing. | ShipServe | 7 |
