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# AI/ML Software Engineer

- **Company:** Apple Inc.
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $150,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Animation, 3D Computer Graphics Software, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, C++ (Programming Language), Computer Engineering, Computer Graphics, Software Debugging, Machine Learning, Software Architecture, Data Logging, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Real Time Systems, Large Language Models, Information Technology, Hardware Acceleration
- **Published:** September 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.themuse.com/jobs/apple/aiml-software-engineer-8d437c

## About the Role

Be highly-motivated and take initiative to achieve goals, while delivering on schedule.

Has a sense of curiosity and willingness to learn new things in order to improve the quality of their solutions.

 * Works well in a collaborative setting., MS/PhD with relevant industry experience.

Experience with audio, computer vision, 3D graphics and animation algorithms.

Experience deploying algorithms to GPUs or other hardware accelerators.

Understanding of SW/HW parallelism, threads, processes and asynchronous processing.

iOS or macOS development experience using frameworks like Foundation Models, MLX, ARKit, REKit.

Knowledge of diffusion transformer models especially in context of on-device inference.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related fields.

5+ years of relevant industry experience.

Strong proficiency in C/C++ or Swift, writing clean and well-structured code.

Solid mathematical foundation in linear algebra and numerical analysis.

Experience breaking down large problems and delivering robust solutions.

Experience developing user-facing APIs for complex systems.

Curiosity about new technologies and flexibility to work across different layers of the software stack.

## Description

You will work closely with Multimodal GenAI researchers and engineers to develop world-class audio-video perception and representation algorithms. The role focuses on building, integrating and maintaining complex real-time systems within a large production software stack. Deep understanding of machine learning inference and performance oriented development is highly desirable. As a member of a fast-paced team, you have the unique and rewarding opportunity to shape upcoming products that will delight and inspire millions of people every day., Design and drive software architecture for both production systems and internal tools

Implement and optimize performance-critical algorithms for mobile and embedded platforms

Developing and integrating agentic workflow frameworks with tool calling components

Integrate multimodal models with audio, image and video modalities for efficient on-device inference

Build tooling for visualization, logging, debugging and evaluation

Integrate real-time perception, 3D representation and animation systems into a broader end-to-end software stack


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