Machine Learning Engineer - Agentic AI

Apple is hiring an engineering professional to design and deliver agentic AI systems that combine large language models with tools and data for production workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and build end-to-end agentic workflows that bring together models, tools, and data to execute multi-step tasks
• Define system behaviors including planning, tool use, structured outputs, and failure handling
• Develop infrastructure to evaluate and improve agentic system performance across quality, reliability, and cost
• Build monitoring and observability capabilities to understand agent behavior in production
• Integrate LLMs with internal and external tools to enable retrieval of context, API calls, and action execution
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate product requirements into scalable agentic systems
• Iterate on system performance through ongoing evaluation and improvement
• Make design tradeoffs for latency, cost, accuracy, and controllability, including comparing deterministic pipelines vs adaptive, LLM-driven approaches

Requirements

• Minimum: bachelor’s degree
• Proven knowledge of cutting-edge agentic systems
• Demonstrated experience designing and shipping agentic systems in production environments
• Strong proficiency with LLM-assisted coding, including using AI tools to design, implement, and iterate on complex systems
• Strong system design experience, including defining and evolving architecture for complex, multi-component systems
• Experience taking products from concept to launch, including delivering user-facing applications at scale or in real-world environments

Location

• Sunnyvale, CA (onsite)

Compensation

• Base pay range: USD 129,300 - 194,700 per year

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• Retirement benefits
• Discounted products and free services
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple
• Discretionary bonuses or commission payments (role eligibility subject to requirements)
• Relocation (eligibility subject to requirements)
• Opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs
• Discretionary restricted stock unit awards
• Ability to purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Note: Apple benefit, compensation, and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other plan terms