Finance Digital Transformation - Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Apple Apple · Big Tech · Austin, TX +1 · Corporate Functions

Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Finance at Apple, focused on building and extending AI/ML platforms and services for finance organizations. The role involves developing infrastructure for generative AI, agentic workflows, and ML inference, with a strong emphasis on MLOps, observability, and compliance within Finance governance frameworks.

What you'd actually do

  1. Extend and improve existing platform capabilities for generative AI, agentic workflows, and machine learning inference use cases
  2. Drive SLO definition, close observability gaps, and strengthen operational posture across ML stack
  3. Develop and deploy frameworks for agentic AI, including evaluation and knowledge management
  4. Harden CI/CD and MLOps practices with testing, drift monitoring, and deployment guardrails
  5. Ensure controls are robust, auditable, and scalable within Finance governance frameworks

Skills

Required

  • Bachelors degree (CS, data science, engineering, or similar) with 7+ years experience
  • Demonstrated experience improving and extending existing AIML platforms and services
  • Hands-on ML platform experience: feature stores, registries, experiment tracking, and model serving
  • Strong debugging and operational instincts
  • Values engineering standards; modularity, testing, version control, and code review
  • CI/CD and MLOps experience strengthening existing pipelines; familiar with GitOps
  • Production Kubernetes and cloud platform experience
  • Working knowledge of ML algorithms; experience shipping generative AI and agentic solutions

Nice to have

  • Experience inheriting and modernizing legacy ML infrastructure without disrupting existing users
  • LLMOps familiarity — evaluation pipelines, RAG infrastructure, prompt versioning, and production guardrails
  • Background in corporate finance, accounting, or supply chain; understanding of SOx, P&L, and close processes
  • Front-end experience for extending internal tooling and platform UIs a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • critical
  • SOX and regulatory compliance
  • Finance governance frameworks

Other signals

  • building the platform
  • developing AIML processes
  • extending platforms
  • shipping generative AI and agentic solutions