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# Senior AI/ML Engineer, Media Understanding

- **Company:** Apple Inc.
- **Location:** Cupertino, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Graph Database, Search Technologies, Software Systems, Information Technology
- **Published:** November 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/1330e0b2-058b-46d6-9980-fb5a159c2991

## About the Role

BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. MS or PhD in Computer Science, ML or a related field preferred.

At least 8 years experience building and shipping production ML or large-scale software systems.

Experience working across teams and influencing technical decisions beyond your own team.

Clear written and confident verbal communication with both engineers and leaders.

Preferred Qualifications

None of these are required. If you have some of them, we'd love to hear from you.

Experience with multimodal understanding, generative AI, knowledge graphs or semantic search.

Experience with media content or catalogs.

Familiarity with Apple Services teams and systems.

Experience working with distributed teams across timezones.

## Description

You'll work closely with engineering, product and design partners across Apple Services, from early design discussions through to delivery. Some days you'll be deep in a partner team's systems working out how our capabilities fit; other days you'll be helping shape a cross-team plan or representing the team's work to leadership. You'll stay technically close to the team's own systems, because the role works best when you know them well.

It suits someone who enjoys connecting teams and shaping direction as much as building, and who likes working across sites and timezones.