Applied Sensing & Health Algorithm Engineer
Apple
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USD 139,500-258,100 / year + Equity
Posted on Feb 3, 2026
The Applied Sensing & Health team has built innovative ways for users to improve their health, watch for their lives, and get personalized insights from their daily patterns through multimodal sensing and AI models. This team combines advanced machine learning, including integration, adaptation, and tuning of foundation models, with contextual sensing, bolstered by innovative study design, to derive user insights spanning health, fitness, and safety. This has enabled us to deliver meaningful features like Cardio Fitness, Journaling Suggestions, Fall and Crash Detection, and our latest advances to bring our suite of Fitness metrics to AirPods Pro 3, delivering 50 workout types in a single year.
Most importantly, you will help ship interactive features that impact millions of users on a daily basis. You take responsibility; you demonstrate creativity, initiative, and the ability to work to deadlines. You feel a personal stake in the product you ship. You thrive in uncertainty and strive to bring order to it. You keep your eye on the ball; you build strong relationships; and you are constantly looking to improve yourself and your team.
- Designing and supporting user study data collections for model development
- Designing and implementing models and algorithms for Health and Fitness use cases, driving end-to-end performance and failure analysis
- Optimizing implementations for power, memory and performance
- Close coordination with multidisciplinary teams across the company
- Working closely with scientists, engineers, QE, and project managers throughout the software lifecycle in successfully delivering best-in-class secure and scalable systems
- PhD or 5+ years research experience in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering / Computer Science or related field with relevant domain knowledge
- Experience in some of the following: signal processing, biomechanics, machine learning, controls, dynamics, statistics, programming
- Experience applying a scientific approach to machine learning modeling from defining hypotheses, designing experiments, testing, failure analysis, and guiding data collection in user studies
- Strong working knowledge of Python, Spark, or equivalent and running experiments with data at scale
- Hybrid scientist/engineer who can do modeling, data pipelining, and/or on-device implementation
- Experience developing generative AI systems, such as large language models, in an applied setting, including post-training techniques like supervised fine-tuning, adapter training, and reinforcement from human feedback
- Excellent interpersonal skills and communication (written and verbal)
- Experience working with cross-functional and/or interdisciplinary teams
- Familiarity with privacy-preserving ML techniques is a plus
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