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Senior ML Infrastructure Engineer, Proactive

Apple

Location

Cupertino, CA, Seattle, WA

Type

Full-time

Posted

5/5/2026

Compensation

Not listed

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202699.0% approval+30% YoY
👑 Elite sponsor

Job description

The Intelligence Platform team at Apple is seeking a senior software engineer to design and build a platform that enhances user experiences through advanced technologies like generative AI and machine learning. This role involves collaborating with various teams across Apple to develop and deploy models that will impact millions of users. The engineer will work on creating systems and APIs that support these technologies while ensuring they operate efficiently within their execution environments. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research and its application in real-world scenarios.

Requirements

  • Excellent software design, problem solving, and debugging skills.
  • Background in architecting and building data or machine learning platforms.
  • Experience building on large language models or other generative models.
  • Proven ability to comprehend, interpret, and apply cutting-edge research into tangible applications.
  • Deep understanding of multi-threaded programming and synchronization.
  • Experience building production feature engineering pipelines is a plus.
  • Experience with distributed data systems is a plus.
  • Experience with macOS/iOS development is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with teams across Apple on training, qualifying, deploying, and serving models.
  • Design and refine systems and APIs for machine learning and generative AI.
  • Understand and adapt new model architectures to the constraints of their execution environments.
  • Work with leadership across Apple to define policy.
  • Bring industry-leading research to millions of Apple product users.

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.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Apple Inc

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

1,065

FY2026

Approval rate

99.0%

FY2026

LCA certified

9,221

FY2026

Entry-level share

5.6%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

+30%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-35%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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