Staff/Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Foundation Models - AI, Search & Knowledge Platforms

Benefits

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Salary

$172K-$302K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

103% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Staff Plus From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Schedule

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Company

Company stage

Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Equity

Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Staff/Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Foundation Models - AI, Search & Knowledge Platforms San Francisco Bay Area, United States of America We are Foundation Model Inference Team, within AI, Search & 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 & 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 langauge 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 architectures. Work closely with product teams to build Production grade solutions to launch models serving millions of customers in real time. Build tools to understand bottlenecks in Inference for different hardwares and use cases. Mentor and guide engineers in the organization. Collaborate with the Foundation Model Research team to optimize inference for cutting edge model architectures Work closely

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