Apple · 7 hours ago
Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Ads ML Infrastructure
Cupertino, California, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$181K/yr - $318K/yr
8+ years expApple is a company that creates products to enrich people’s lives. They are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to empower Ad Platforms teams to build and scale innovative ML systems for optimized advertising content. The role involves designing and developing secure and scalable back-end systems while collaborating with engineers and data scientists.
AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)BroadcastingDigital EntertainmentFoundational AIMedia and EntertainmentMobile DevicesOperating SystemsTVWearables
Responsibilities
Design and develop secure and scalable back-end systems
Build high-performing, elegant systems from the ground up in close partnerships with various teams
Select technologies and build the right solution for the challenges tackled
Define and refine architectures to meet unique ad network challenges
Build machine learning products that deliver on Apple's privacy commitments and change advertising with data
Qualification
Required
Proven track record of designing and operating large-scale, low-latency ML Serving platform supporting real-time and batch inference
Experience of model quantization, tensor parallelism, and inference optimizations (e.g ONNX Runtime, TensorRT, vLLM). Actively led evaluation and adoption of such technologies
Experience working on distributed systems (e.g Ray, high-throughput RPC systems) to support scalable inference workloads and hybrid online/offline serving patterns
Prior experience in advertising industry, federated learning and privacy-preserving ML techniques
Recognized as a technical leader and mentor, supports the growth of engineers through code/design reviews, working groups, and internal knowledge sharing
Experience building machine learning models using frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow. Provides technical guidance and mentorship on best practices
Led development of foundational AI/ML platforms and tooling including Feature Stores, Vector DB to accelerate team productivity and model lifecycle management
Experience performance tuning & trouble-shooting
Pride in building tools to automate routine tasks, organized & detailed
Passionate about developer experience builds abstractions, automation tools, and reusable components to streamline ML workflows and reduce operational burden
Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical multi-functional teams
Results oriented with a desire to work in a fast-paced and collaborative work environment
Preferred
PhD, MS, or BS in computer science or a related field, with 8+ years of experience in machine learning and strong software engineering skills
Benefits
Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
Retirement benefits
A range of discounted products and free services
Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
Relocation
Company
Apple
Apple is a technology company that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$5.67BKey Investors
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2025-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $4.5B
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2021-04-30Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Tim Cook
CEO
Craig Federighi
SVP, Software Engineering
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