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Apple Machine Learning Engineer- GenAI in Cupertino, California
Role Number: 200648705-0836
Summary
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, we believe new insights have a way of becoming excellent products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish.
The people here at Apple don’t just create products — they create the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it.
It takes deeply dedicated, intelligent individuals to maintain and exceed the high expectations at Apple. The Product Operations team is looking for an extraordinary engineer to join our team. You will help design and implement our machine learning strategy to the substantial supply chain and help build the future of our manufacturing systems and smarter factories. We will be collaborating and working with multi-functional teams and applying algorithms to large-scale data.
Description
Product Operations partners with a variety of different engineering and operations teams, our team leads development of machine learning solutions. We deliver projects from end-to-end: problem statement and conceptualization, proof-of-concept, and participation in final deployment! You will also perform ad-hoc statistical analyses. You will also work closely with data engineers to generate detailed business intelligence solutions. You will be expected to conduct presentations of analyses to a wide range of audiences including executives.
Minimum Qualifications
3+ years experience in GenAI applications, machine learning algorithms, software engineering, and data mining models with an emphasis on large language models (LLM) or large multimodal models (LMM).
Masters in Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Statistics, Operations Research, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field.
Preferred Qualifications
Proven experience in GenAI application building with agents and agentic workflows. Experience with LLM and LMM development and fine-tuning is a major plus.
Proficiency in using cutting-edge GenAI tools, i.e. Claude Code, Roo Code, etc.
Familiarity with distributed computing, cloud infrastructure, and orchestration tools, such as Kubernetes, Apache Airflow (DAG), Docker, Conductor, Ray for LLM training and inference at scale is a plus.
Hands-on experience with LangChain and LlamaIndex, enabling RAG applications and LLM orchestration.
Deep understanding of transformer-based architectures (e.g., BERT, GPT, LLaMA) and their optimization for low-latency inference.
Ability to meaningfully present results of analyses in a clear and impactful manner, breaking down complex ML/LLM concepts for non-technical audiences.
Experience applying ML techniques in manufacturing, testing, or hardware optimization is a major plus.
Proven experience in leading and mentoring teams is a plus.
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