Machine Learning Engineer - News, Books, & Stocks Team
Apple
Software Engineering, Data Science
Cupertino, CA, USA
USD 147,400-272,100 / year + Equity
Posted on Feb 18, 2026
In a time where the news and book media landscapes are changing by the day, Apple News and Apple Books stand as champions of quality content, expert curation, user privacy, and the judicious use of machine learning. Our lively and brilliant team consists of client and machine learning engineers who embody Apple's values. We inspire, teach, and otherwise enable each other to do the best work of our careers. Our team's outstanding retention rate speaks to our strong culture of respect for our teammates as both engineers and people. Would you like to work on such a team, solving hard problems in machine learning? Terrific! Please join us for the next generation of these apps!
Our team is seeking a high-energy and self-driven machine learning engineer who will play a central role in the delivery of scalable services. The team uses machine learning to tackle difficult and complicated problems in the news, books, and stocks domains, including text extraction, named entity recognition, duplicate detection, search, ranking, and much more! As a member of our dynamic group, you’ll have the rare and rewarding opportunity to craft upcoming products that will delight and encourage millions of Apple’s customers every day!
- Design and implement state-of-the-art AI/ML that processes news, stocks, and books data
- to drive recommendations, power advanced search, and enable next-generation AI features.
- Develop datasets, design model architecture, and prompt, train, or fine-tune models.
- Partner with cross-functional teams at the intersection of technology and liberal arts to design and implement end-to-end AI/ML features.
- Drive application features from concept, model design, and development all the way to
- delivery.
- Join a thriving machine learning community at Apple.
- MS in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related field. Alternatively, equivalent
- industry experience to an MS degree is acceptable.
- At least 2 years of experience shipping machine learning models in products.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or a related language, and one of the deep learning toolkits such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar.
- Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with partner teams.
- Commitment to encouraging an open and inclusive work environment.
- Ph.D. in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related field.
- At least 5 years of experience shipping machine learning models in products.
- Experience with recommender systems.
- Experience with text-centric AI/ML (LLMs, document classification, search, etc.)
- Experience delivering high quality software at scale.
- Experience designing user-facing machine learning features with interdisciplinary partners.
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