Staff Machine Learning Engineer Answers, Knowledge & Information (AKI)
Apple
Santa Clara, California, U.S.
Full-time, Regular
Posted Aug 29, 2025
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Compensation
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About the role
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Responsibilities
- Own the entire ML development cycle from opportunity analysis, exploration, and prototyping to data collection, feature engineering, training, evaluation, and deployment in production.
- Lead the development of machine learning models to improve search quality across retrieval, ranking, reranking, and query understanding.
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership in architecting ML systems and designing ML models.
- Understand product requirements, then translate them into modeling tasks and engineering tasks.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, or deep learning.
- Deep understanding of machine learning theory, including supervised learning, ranking models, embeddings, representation learning, and evaluation metrics.
- Proven ability to apply advanced ML techniques to improve search relevance and retrieval quality at scale.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, comfortable leading experimentation, offline evaluation, and online A/B testing for iterative improvements in search quality.
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in machine learning or a related field.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- Retirement benefits
- Discounted products and services
- Education reimbursement
- Discretionary restricted stock unit awards
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan discounts
- Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
- Relocation assistance
Job Details
Salary Range
$181,100 - $318,400/yearly
Location
Santa Clara, California, U.S.
Employment Type
Full-time, Regular
Original Posting
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