Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Platform
Core
Design and develop model training and fine-tuning infrastructure at scale to empower Apple Ads teams to build, deploy, and operate innovative ML applications.
Role type
Senior Staff IC machine learning engineer (ML platform)
Builds
Self-serve, unified ML platform with foundational infrastructure for model training, inference, and agentic AI
Domain
Advertising technology, large-scale distributed systems, deep learning
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
distributed training at scale, deep learning architectures (Transformers, LLMs, DNNs), model optimization (pruning, compression, quantization, distillation), ML lifecycle management, building shared ML frameworks
Preferred skills
privacy-preserving ML (federated learning, differential privacy), LLM training and inference (pre-training, SFT, RL), agentic AI
Technologies
TensorFlow, Pytorch
Responsibilities
Design and develop scalable model training and fine-tuning infrastructure; define and refine architectures for unique ad network challenges; build high-performing ML systems in partnership with internal and external teams
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategic impact
