Apple · 8 hours ago
Sr. Machine Learning Engineer – Recommendations u0026 Personalization (Feature Engineering)
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$172K/yr - $302K/yr
8+ years expApple is a leading technology company known for its innovative products and services. The role involves operationalizing machine learning models and developing infrastructure to support large-scale personalized recommender systems for various Apple services. This position offers the opportunity to impact billions of users by building production-grade services and optimizing system performance.
AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)BroadcastingDigital EntertainmentFoundational AIMedia and EntertainmentMobile DevicesOperating SystemsTVWearables
Responsibilities
Operationalizing machine learning models from building real-time and batch inference pipelines to optimizing system performance, reliability, and experimentation velocity
Bridging the gap between research and production by developing the infrastructure, tooling, and monitoring required to ship ML-driven features safely and efficiently
Qualification
Required
MS or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
8+ years of deep software engineering experience, with a strong background in building and deploying production machine learning systems
Experience in areas such as personalization, search, or recommendations is a plus
Experience with big data and stream processing frameworks like Spark, Flink, or Kafka
Proficiency in object-oriented programming languages such as Java, Scala, or C++
Experience building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems for ML workloads
Deep understanding of ML model deployment pipelines, runtime optimization, and system integration
Familiarity with A/B testing frameworks, experimental design, and online evaluation
Strong focus on system reliability, latency, and observability in production environments
Preferred
Experience in batch and real-time inference serving, including autoscaling and traffic management
Background in content recommendation systems, search ranking, or user engagement optimization
Experience with CI/CD workflows for ML systems, including safe model rollouts and shadow testing
Exposure to containerized deployments and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
Experience building and deploying production-grade applications using LLMs, including expertise in prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, and framework orchestration
Proven track record of developing autonomous agents capable of multi-step reasoning, external tool integration, and complex task decomposition to solve open-ended problems
Prior experience working on consumer-scale media products (apps, games, books, music, or video)
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
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5.67BKey Investors
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2025-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $4.5B
2025-01-16Post Ipo Debt· $0.31M
2021-04-30Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Tim Cook
CEO
Craig Federighi
SVP, Software Engineering
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