Senior Platform Engineer, Privacy Preserving ML

Seattle Until 10/5/2026 2+ years exp First posted August 6, 2026 Last posted August 6, 2026
Job description

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Apple delivers great features and great privacy to our users. The Privacy Preserving Machine Learning team works with teams all across the company to provide tools and support for state of the art privacy-preserving measurement and machine learning, and are looking for an outstanding candidate to help us scale across Apple products.

Description

We are seeking an experienced platform learning engineer and to join our team building
privacy-preserving technologies for measurement and machine learning.
Successful candidates will need to have a strong technical background and interest or
experience with backend development and deploying data-intensive systems. Strong
interpersonal skills and the ability to influence and build consensus are crucial to
success in this role. You will be working across a range of technologies, so adaptability
to new problems and systems is a core skill.

Minimum Qualifications

2+ years of industry experience with a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
experience in Computer Science or a related technical field.
Experience architecting, deploying, and scaling data intensive systems.
Strong hands-on experience in SW development, with proficiency in one or
more programming languages such as Python, Swift, and C++.
Experience building systems to orchestrate, automate, and harden data
processing pipelines.
Strong problem-solving skills, creativity in finding effective solutions, and the
ability to collaborate with teams across the company.

Preferred Qualifications

Passion for customer privacy.
Experience with differential privacy, secure multi-party computation, private
federated learning, or PII redaction frameworks.
Experience with DevOps/GitOps, CI/CD, and containerized deployment
frameworks like Kubernetes.
Experience with statistical techniques for A/B testing, distribution estimation,
and sampling theory.
Experience with compliance, security protocols, and defense in depth to reduce
vulnerabilities.
5+ years of industry experience.
Master's degree or PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science,
Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

About this role

Summary

Build privacy-preserving systems for measurement and machine learning at Apple.

Job title

Senior Platform Engineer, Privacy Preserving ML

Experience level

2+ years

Minimum experience

2+ years exp

Industry

technology

Location requirements

Seattle, remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

PythonSwiftC++data intensive systemssystem deployment

Preferred skills

differential privacysecure multi-party computationfederated learningKubernetesA/B testing

Specializations

privacy-preservingmachine learningbackend developmentdata systemsDevOps
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Seattle, WA, USA

Work arrangement unknown City