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 170 active AI roles, down 37% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $120k–$487k (avg $235k).
Apple currently has 231 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 (180 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 78 new AI-related roles. That is a -20% change versus the prior 30 days (97 → 78).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Sr Software Engineer (Agentic AI), AI & Data Platforms This role focuses on building the backbone of an AI-powered developer platform that uses AI agents and autonomous workflows to support app development within Apple. The engineer will design and maintain backend services and orchestration systems for multi-agent AI workflows, integrate LLMs into developer tools, and work on cloud deployments and MLOps. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer: Agentic Systems, Instructional Products Senior Software Engineer to design and build intelligent tooling and automation using AI-driven agents to improve engineering productivity and content operations. The role involves prototyping and productionizing systems that leverage agentic coding workflows and AI-driven content processing to streamline development and publishing processes. | Agent |
| 7 |
| Senior ML Software Engineer, Watch Software Senior ML Software Engineer for Apple Watch, focusing on developing and deploying ML models on-device using multimodal sensor data. The role involves the full ML lifecycle from research to productization, with an emphasis on power-efficient, on-device inference for consumer features. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Senior Manager - AI Data Operations The Senior Manager of AI Data Operations will lead an organization of internal domain experts to build scalable annotation programs that balance accuracy and speed while maintaining quality standards. This role partners with Engineering, Data Science, and Programs to translate evolving system requirements into robust audit pipelines, tooling strategies, and measurable performance lift. Responsibilities include owning end-to-end data annotation and system audit operations, designing quality frameworks, operationalizing auditing for training, evaluation, and red-teaming, driving tooling evolution and automation strategy, and developing data augmentation strategies. | DataEval Gate | 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 |
| AIML - ML Research Scientist, HCMI Research Scientist role focused on developing and deploying ML technologies for understanding, interacting with, evaluating, and generating user interfaces across Apple platforms. The work integrates into various Apple products and services, with a focus on shipping both internal tools and external products. | Ship | 7 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer : Platform Intelligence - Apple Maps Staff Machine Learning Engineer for Apple Maps focused on designing, developing, and deploying on-device ML models. This role requires optimizing for performance on Apple platforms, collaborating cross-functionally, and mentoring junior engineers. Experience with ML frameworks, systems programming, and shipping production ML models on mobile/embedded devices is critical. | ServePost-train | 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 |
| Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Siri Runtime Systems and Interaction Machine Learning Systems Engineer for Siri at Apple, focusing on integrating, optimizing, and deploying ML models into production software pipelines for resource-constrained platforms. The role involves building infrastructure for ML evaluation and analysis, collaborating with ML engineers, and ensuring performance and reliability of ML workloads within the Siri ecosystem. | ServeEval Gate | 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 |
| Manager, Machine Learning Engineering Manager for a Machine Learning Engineering team focused on manufacturing applications at Apple. The role involves leading a team of ML and MLOps engineers to build, deploy, and scale AI-driven systems for the product lifecycle, from prototype to announcement. Requires technical expertise in AI, leadership skills, and experience with MLOps, Computer Vision, and scaling ML systems. | Serve | 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 |
| AIML - Software Engineer - AI, Evaluation Software Engineer role focused on building tools and systems for the automatic evaluation of Apple's AI products, specifically using LLM-as-judge and related technologies to improve the quality and efficiency of these evaluations. The role involves designing and developing frameworks, pipelines, and tools for AI model development, deployment, and measurement, directly impacting product launch decisions. | Eval GateAgent | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Machine Learning & AI Software Engineer role focused on developing and delivering AI/ML solutions for Apple's hardware product line, including agentic systems and RAG architectures, with responsibilities spanning training, evaluation, and inference pipelines. | AgentServe | 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 |
| Staff Software Engineer (Applied AI) Staff Software Engineer to advance Manufacturing Systems and Operations using LLMs, from prototyping to production and scaling. This role involves working with various organizations to develop impactful solutions, some standalone and others integrated into existing systems. | AgentPost-train | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer - AI, Search & Knowledge Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer at Apple, focused on building and scaling the AI, Search & Knowledge platform. This role involves creating seamless integrations between ML frameworks and the platform, designing Python SDKs and APIs, and building backend services to support model management and serving infrastructure. The goal is to enable ML practitioners to focus on innovation by abstracting infrastructure complexity. | Serve | 7 |
