Machine Learning Engineer - NLP/LLM (2026 New Grad)
Apple · Beijing, China · Machine Learning and AI
About this role
Apple is hiring a mid-level Machine Learning Engineer based in Beijing, China. The posting calls out experience with Python, Swift, LLMs, NLP.
- Role
- Machine Learning Engineer
- Function
- machine learning
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Location
- Beijing, China
- Department
- Machine Learning and AI
- Posted
- Apr 15, 2026
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Job description
from Apple careersImagine what you could do here! At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Combining groundbreaking machine learning research with next-generation hardware, our teams take user experiences to the next level.
Apple’s AIML residency is a year-long program inviting experts in various fields to apply their own domain expertise to innovate and build revolutionary machine learning and AI-based products and experiences. As AI-based solutions spread across fields, the need for domain experts to understand machine learning and apply their expertise in ML settings grows.
Residents will have the opportunity to attend ML and AI courses, learn from an Apple mentor closely involved in their program, collaborate with fellow residents, gain hands-on experience working on high-impact projects, publish in premier academic conferences, and partner with Apple teams across hardware, software, and services.
Advances in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning have significantly influenced Apple’s core products, such as Siri and Apple Intelligence. A compelling research avenue lies in improving the generalization of small-scale LLM adapters to enable efficient and robust on-device intelligence.
<h3>Minimum Qualifications</h3>Proficiency in a programming language such as Python, Objective-C, C++, Swift, and/or R. Candidates should have experience completing a moderate-sized software project