Machine Learning Engineer - Proximity Systems and Intelligence Team

1 week ago San Diego, CA

Our mission is to provide an intelligent and rich user experience on Apple devices using spatial awareness and device context. We help you find your keys, locate your AirPods, remind you if you leave your devices behind in untrusted locations, and let you know how long your commute will be. We also help your loved ones know you made it home safely and help protect you against unwanted tracking. We have an opening for an experienced Machine Learning engineer for our small but growing team. The team currently focuses on designing and developing algorithms that help realize our mission. If applying machine learning algorithms to solve these problems and deploying them efficiently on edge devices excites you, we would want to talk to you!

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In this role you'll be a part of a team of software engineers that design and develop the software stack that enables these user experiences. You will play an integral part in ideating new algorithms and models that would unlock new experiences or improve accuracy and performance of existing ones. You will work with other members of the team to design pipelines that yield the data needed to train and refine your algorithms and models.

You will ensure product quality by developing and improving tooling (including internal iOS applications), continuous integration, and data analysis and visualization. You will communicate with cross-functional teams and leadership about your designs, your progress and any risks that you see. You'll test your work, dogfood it, collect metrics, and iterate. Don't forget to sweat the edge cases-an issue that impacts a couple percent of a couple billion devices is a big issue.

Come join us to build the technology which enables incredible spatially-aware experiences to our users now and for the future.

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience in pre-training and fine-tuning large models

Prior experience in building models with sparse labelled data.

Prior experience in efficient on-device deployment of ML models.

Possess working knowledge of probability and statistics

Can succeed in a collaborative environment and can clearly communicate while deftly driving multiple projects across many teams

Are laser-focused on customer impact with attention to the smallest details that are meaningful to our customers

Are obsessively passionate and inquisitive, and seek to solve everyday problems in innovative ways

Minimum Qualifications

Have 3-5+ years shipping production grade software and machine learning algorithms

Possess excellent analytical, programming, and debugging skills

Have good foundation in C++, Objective-C, or Swift

Comfortable scripting and developing in Unix-like systems.

Have Bachelor's or graduate degree in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or similar area

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant .

Client-provided location(s): San Diego, CA
Job ID: apple-200608961-3543_rxr-659
Employment Type: OTHER
Posted: 2025-12-07T19:05:57

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              • Professional Development

                • Diversity and Inclusion

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