Senior AI/ML Engineer, Media Understanding
About The Position
Apple’s Media Understanding team builds systems that help Apple understand media—including songs, episodes, shows, and games—and how content relates to other content. This understanding supports experiences across Apple Music, Podcasts, TV, and Sports. The work combines rigorous AI/ML engineering with media, culture, storytelling, and taste. The role is based in Cupertino and serves as the team’s technical presence there, working day to day with partner teams in their timezone and bringing relevant context back to the wider team, much of which is based in Barcelona. The position works closely with engineering, product, and design partners across Apple Services from early design discussions through delivery. It involves collaborating with partner systems, helping shape cross-team plans, and representing the team’s work to leadership, while remaining technically close to the team’s own systems and contributing to their development.
Requirements
- BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 8 years of experience building and shipping production ML or large-scale software systems.
- Experience working across teams and influencing technical decisions beyond one’s own team.
- Clear written and confident verbal communication with engineers and leaders.
Nice To Haves
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, ML, or a related field.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Partner with engineering teams across Apple to understand their needs and design solutions using the team’s media understanding capabilities.
- Represent the team in Cupertino-based technical and planning discussions, and keep the wider team closely connected to those discussions.
- Help shape technical direction for media understanding work, aligning with team leadership in Barcelona and local partner teams.
- Stay technically close to the team’s content understanding systems, contributing to design, technical reviews, and hands-on work where it adds value.
- Work with engineering, product, and design partners across Apple Services from early design discussions through delivery.
- Help shape cross-team plans and represent the team’s work to leadership.
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
