AIML - Machine Learning Engineer, Visual Intelligence Technology

Santa Clara Seattle Until 9/22/2026 5+ years exp First posted July 24, 2026 Last posted July 24, 2026
Job description

Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other’s ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It’s the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you’ll do more than join something — you’ll add something. In Visual Intelligence Technology team, we work hard to bring the best user experiences powered by Apple Intelligence. We leverage cutting-edge technologies like Visual Search and LLM to empower user-facing features like Visual Look-up and Visual Intelligence in camera and photos. We also advance our technology innovation in Visual Intelligence Technology and Multimodal Foundation Model for longer-term ambitious goals. As part of this team, you will explore how large-scale models can understand and reason about complex visual scenes, design and build large-scale training pipelines, and perform experiments at scales. You will also work with researchers and data scientists to develop, fine-tune, and evaluate domain specific LLMs for various tasks and applications in Apple’s AI powered products, also conduct applied research to transfer the groundbreaking research in generative AI to production ready technologies.

Description

Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other’s ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It’s the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you’ll do more than join something — you’ll add something.

In Visual Intelligence Technology team, we work hard to bring the best user experiences powered by Apple Intelligence. We leverage cutting-edge technologies like Visual Search and LLM to empower user-facing features like Visual Look-up and Visual Intelligence in camera and photos. We also advance our technology innovation in Visual Intelligence Technology and Multimodal Foundation Model for longer-term ambitious goals.

Minimum Qualifications

MS or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Data Science or related field
5+ years of experience in machine learning, deep learning, information retrieval, natural language processing or data mining
Experience being a tech lead, and has been successfully leading a team to ship software to users
Excellent knowledge and good practical skills in designing ML platforms, architectures or algorithms
Strong interpersonal skills able to work independently as well as in a team

Preferred Qualifications

3+ years of experience of prompt engineering, fine-tuning, evaluating, and developing data collection/annotation/management tooling for LLMs
Experience with relevant deep learning software packages (Keras, Tensorflow, PyTorch…)

About this role

Summary

Develop and optimize large-scale visual and language AI models, pipelines, and experiments.

Job title

Machine Learning Engineer, Visual Intelligence Technology

Experience level

5+ years

Minimum experience

5+ years exp

Industry

technology

Location requirements

Santa Clara or Seattle, remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

machine learningdeep learninglarge language modelsML platformsPython

Preferred skills

prompt engineeringfine-tuningdata management toolingPyTorchTensorFlow

Specializations

visual searchlarge language modelsmultimodal foundation modeldeep learning
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Santa Clara, CA, USA

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Seattle, WA, USA

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