# Senior Machine Learning Engineer

The ACAI Training & Inference Platform team is seeking a Senior / Staff Software Engineer with strong distributed systems expertise and deep experience in AI training and inference. As part of Apple Cloud AI (ACAI) within Apple’s Data Platform (ADP), you will design and build core capabilities for large-scale model training, post-training, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and high-performance inference. You will develop scalable AI execution frameworks, developer-facing APIs, and runtime optimizations that make it easier to train, adapt, and serve advanced models efficiently across Apple’s AI ecosystem. You will partner closely with AI researchers and engineers to translate evolving model architectures and workload requirements into reliable, high-performance training and inference solutions. This role is ideal for an engineer who combines deep distributed-systems expertise with hands-on knowledge of modern LLM training, post-training, and inference optimization. Description ADP brings together the Apple Cloud Data Platform (ACDP), Apple Cloud AI (ACAI), and Apple Governance Platform (AGP) to provide foundational capabilities for data, analytics, AI, and governance at Apple sca

- **Id**: 4025921
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-senior-machine-learning-engineer-12>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cupertino, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T16:16:39Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T16:48:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6475
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Operating Systems, Laptops, Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers, Tablets

## Company

- **Id**: 12
- **Name**: Apple
- **Domain**: apple.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/apple>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Apple Jobs

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 93
- **Open postings**: 358
- **Ghost share**: 0.008
- **Stale share**: 0.022
- **Repost share**: 0.064
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 122
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **KV Cache** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **Ray** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **SFT** — Optional: no
- **Speculative Decoding** — Optional: no
- **DeepSpeed** — Optional: yes
- **Flink** — Optional: yes
- **FSDP** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **RLHF** — Optional: yes
- **RLlib** — Optional: yes
- **SGLang** — Optional: yes
- **Spark** — Optional: yes
- **TensorRT** — Optional: yes
- **TensorRT-LLM** — Optional: yes
- **Transformers** — Optional: yes
- **TRL** — Optional: yes
- **vLLM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T16:48:42Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,350 · green card filings: 39; Filings 12m: 6350

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 122
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T17:28:52Z

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