# Staff Machine Learning Engineer — Commerce & Growth Intelligence

The Commerce & Growth Intelligence team is looking for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to build the systems that bring ML capabilities into customer-facing products. Our work spans model inference, distributed ML workloads, data processing, and integration with cloud services and on device intelligence on Apple devices. You’ll help shape how these components fit together and build the software that connects them-from making a model available through a reliable inference service to enabling a fine-tuning workflow to handle larger datasets and workloads. Your primary focus will be model inference and shared ML infrastructure, with opportunities to extend that work into training, fine-tuning, data processing, and device-to-cloud integration. This is a hands-on technical leadership role with ownership of architectural decisions and delivery across teams. Description You’ll lead engineering projects across the AI/ML stack, working with modeling, infrastructure, and product teams to turn emerging capabilities into production software. Modeling partners lead model architecture and quality evaluation; you’ll lead the engineering systems and integrations that support training, deployment,

- **Id**: 3767084
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-staff-machine-learning-engineer-commerce-growth-intelligence>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cupertino, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T19:12:52Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T14:14:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3686
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commerce, Operating Systems, 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**: 90
- **Open postings**: 829
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.181
- **Repost share**: 0.004
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 90
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Technologies

- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Core ML** — Optional: yes
- **Edge AI** — Optional: yes
- **Flink** — Optional: yes
- **Go** — Optional: yes
- **LangChain** — Optional: yes
- **LangGraph** — Optional: yes
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: yes
- **ONNX Runtime** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Ray** — Optional: yes
- **Ray Serve** — Optional: yes
- **Spark** — Optional: yes
- **Swift** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T20:17:24Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,350 · green card filings: 37; Filings 12m: 6350; Filings prev 12m: 6527; Green card filings 12m: 37

## Liveness

- **Score**: 99
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.993
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 90
- **Reasons**: conf:2, urgency, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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