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# Senior Simulation Machine Learning Engineer - Special Projects

- **Company:** Apple Inc.
- **Location:** Cupertino, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $147,400.0 - $272,100.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Animation, 3d Models, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, C++ (Programming Language), Software Debugging, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Large Language Models, Generative AI, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** May 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f70ff5ce7dfb4f5e

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Software engineering?, Familiarity with USD format and tools

Experience with neural rendering, 3D generative models, learned simulation techniques.

Experience guiding technical direction, influencing architecture in a software engineering team

Understanding of real-time and offline rendering pipelines.

Experience with animation

Experience with complex industrial or commercial simulation systems or large-scale data generation workflows.

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years of professional experience in ML, simulation, graphics, or related fields.

Strong proficiency in Python and modern machine learning techniques.

Working knowledge of C++ and robust software engineering fundamentals.

Experience with LLMs, VLMs, diffusion models, world models, or similar generative/modeling frameworks.

Experience with 3D data, scene representations, and rendering fundamentals.

Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills are key.

## Description

As a Senior Simulation Machine Learning Engineer, you will join an innovation-driven team advancing Apple's simulation and synthetic data technology to support a wide range of AI/ML initiatives. You will design, prototype, and productionize systems that generate high-quality 3D scenarios and multi-modal synthetic datasets used throughout Apple's ML ecosystem., We're looking for an engineer with deep experience, strong ML intuition, and the ability to turn ambitions into robust tools. You should be comfortable exploring new ideas, iterating quickly, and driving solutions from prototype to polished implementation. Collaboration is essential - you will partner closely with engineers, animators, technical artists, and ML researchers across the organization. You will play a key role in shaping Apple's next generation of AI/ML capabilities by defining how simulation data is generated, validated, and delivered at scale.","responsibilities":"Design and implement systems for generating, varying, and validating 3D simulation scenarios, leveraging generative models, procedural techniques, and diverse data sources to create environments, human animation and behavior, rendering and lighting.

Develop prototypes and production systems that expand our capabilities and scale across teams

Partner with engineers, ML researchers, and content creators to deliver efficient, reliable pipelines.

Develop tools and APIs that enable internal users to easily author, manage, and execute simulations.

Debug and resolve issues across scenario generation, simulation, and data quality.

Identify architectural improvements and drive long-term strategy for scenario generation and simulation-based data pipelines.

Stay current with advances in world models, generative video/3D models, neural rendering, procedural content generation, and simulation technologies. Introduce promising methods into production workflows.


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