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StaffSr. Machine Learning Engineer, Foundation Models AI, Search & Knowledge Platforms

Apple


Job Location:

Santa Clara County, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 13 August 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 12 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

We are Foundation Model Inference Team within AI Search u0026 Knowledge Platform Technologies organization. Our team is responsible to build Inference stack to power Apple Intelligence. It builds frameworks services and tools that power the largest Apple foundation models on servers. Our Infrastructure powers a wide gamut of services at Apple including Apple Search Apple Music AppleTV AppStore iMessages Photos u0026 Camera Spotlight Safari Siri and upcoming ever exciting Apple products serving millions of queries every day with incredible low latencies drawing every ounce of compute from our hardware. As part of this group you will get a chance to bring Intelligence to billions of users across the world. You will have an opportunity to make difference in life of people by empowering them with AI. You will have a chance to work on optimizing billions of parameter language and vision and speech models using state of the art technologies and make it run at scale of Apple.

Work along side Foundation Model Research team to optimize inference for cutting edge model closely with product teams to build Production grade solutions to launch models serving millions of customers in real tools to understand bottlenecks in Inference for different hardwares and use and guide engineers in the organization.

Collaborate with the Foundation Model Research team to optimize inference for cutting edge model architecturesnWork closely with product teams to build Production grade solutions to launch models serving millions of customers in real time nBuild profiling tools simulators to understand the bottlenecksnMentor and guide engineers in the organization

5 years of experience leading and driving complex ambiguous with LLM inference stacknFamiliarity with GPU programming concepts using with one of the popular ML Frameworks like Pytorch experience with high throughput services particularly at supercomputing with running applications on Cloud (AWS / Azure or equivalent) using Kubernetes Docker etc. nFamiliar with one of the popular ML Frameworks like Pytorch in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Information Retrieval Data Science or related field

Proficient in building and maintaining systems written in modern languages (eg: Golang Python)nFamiliar with fundamental Deep Learning architectures such as Transformers Encoder/Decoder models. nFamiliarity with Nvidia TensorRT-LLM vLLM DeepSpeed Nvidia Triton Server etc. nExperience writing custom CUDA kernels using CUDA or OpenAI Triton. nMS in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Information Retrieval Data Science or related field.

Required Experience:

Senior IC


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