The AI, Search & Knowledge Platforms team at Apple focuses on building innovative products and services that enhance user experiences across various platforms. This role involves improving the quality and performance of search and ranking systems that support knowledge question answering. The ideal candidate will develop machine learning systems, software heuristics, and large language models to optimize user query understanding and document retrieval. This position offers the opportunity to shape future Apple products while working in a fast-paced and collaborative environment.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience in shipping Search and ML systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or similar languages.
• Experience building scalable data pipelines and backend systems.
• Proficiency in data science methodologies, including A/B testing and statistical hypothesis testing.
• Experience with prompt engineering.
• Excellent communication skills.

• Identify and address opportunities to improve search and ranking systems.
• Develop sophisticated machine learning systems and robust software heuristics.
• Work across the entire stack, applying a broad skill set from data science to ML system design.
• Translate ambiguous product requirements into concrete engineering and modeling tasks.
• Train machine learning models and write robust software heuristics.
• Iterate on prompt engineering to enhance user query understanding.

• 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.