MacOS ML Engineer

Job Description

The Information Security Machine Learning (ISML) team at Apple is seeking a passionate and highly skilled macOS engineer to build the foundation for autonomous security on Apple devices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience developing system software, services, applications, or frameworks for macOS or Linux.
• Solid programming skills in at least one of the following programming languages: Swift, Objective-C, C/C++, Rust with strong attention to detail
• System level programming and debugging experience such as efficient file I/O, memory management, and concurrency.
• Experience with on-device ML frameworks (Core ML, Win ML, ONNX, TF Lite or ExecuTorch)
• Experience with API design and software architecture.
• Demonstrated experience working cross-organization

Responsibilities

• Build fundamental software, libraries, tools, and test suites to support autonomous security on Apple devices.
• Develop software and integrations to enable on device security machine learning.
• Define architectures and services for autonomous security on-device including OS interfaces and autonomous security capabilities.
• Collaborate with Core OS, security, and services partners across Apple to deliver high reliability, high performance device frameworks and services.
• Adapt intelligence, models, and research developed by the team to run on macOS.
• Use a blend of macOS development best-practices, systems and software engineering, and embedded systems development.
• Utilize Apple internal tools, platforms, third party cloud, and local hardware to test and deploy software, frameworks, and ML models for current and future macOS releases.

Benefits

• Employees at Apple are often offered comprehensive benefits that support physical and mental well-being—flexible medical plans, confidential counseling, onsite wellness centers at major campuses, and resources for fitness and daily life. Families typically receive fertility support, paid parental leave with gradual return, caregiving leave, and dependent-care guidance, while financial perks commonly include stock grants (with purchase discounts), 401(k) matching, and income-protection coverage. Employees also see robust time off, Apple University learning and tuition reimbursement, donation matching and paid volunteer hours, and deep product and partner discounts.