Machine Learning Engineer - Video Generation Models at Apple

Department: Machine Learning and AI

Location: California · San Francisco, California
Level: mid
Posted: Sep 10, 2026

Description

Apple is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer to build and improve video generation models. The role covers pre-training, fine-tuning, and inference optimization, including architecture selection, distributed training, training efficiency, model adaptation, and reproducible training and evaluation code. The engineer will partner with product and research stakeholders and require a relevant bachelor's degree and at least three years of relevant industry experience.

Required Skills

Python
PyTorch
JAX
Distributed training
Fine-tuning
Quantization

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant degree
Required Previous Experiences: At least 3 years of relevant industry experience
Experience with large-scale generative model training for video generation
Experience running distributed training across multi-node GPU clusters
Preferred Qualifications: Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering
Experience with video generation architectures, including diffusion or autoregressive models, temporal consistency, and long-horizon generation
Experience contributing to major foundation or base model pre-training efforts, including scaling laws and transferring training recipes across model and training scales
Experience with large-scale training operations, including parallelism strategies and diagnosing loss instability, divergence, or throughput regressions
Experience improving and adapting trained models, including distillation, sampling, quantization, fine-tuning, preference optimization, and knowledge distillation
Ability to work through ambiguity, collaborate across teams and disciplines, and communicate complex technical results clearly

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