mid Machine Learning Engineer ic · Posted May 15, 2026

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Apple is hiring a mid-level Machine Learning Engineer based in San Diego, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, Java, Scala, Kotlin.

Role
Machine Learning Engineer
Function
machine learning
Level
mid
Track
Individual contributor
Location
San Diego, CA
Department
Software and Services
Posted
May 15, 2026

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Job description

from Apple careers

Apple's iCloud Anti-Abuse team protects hundreds of millions of users from spam, phishing, and malicious content across Mail, Calendar, and Contacts.

We are looking for an ML engineer who can build and ship models in production distributed systems. You will design, train, and deploy ML models that operate at iCloud scale, working across the full lifecycle from data pipelines to real-time inference. You will partner with backend engineers and cross-functional teams in trust and safety, operations, and product to deliver measurable improvements in user protection.

This role sits at the intersection of machine learning and distributed systems engineering. You will play a foundational role in building the team's ML capabilities — owning ML-driven abuse detection: building features from high-volume data streams, training and evaluating classification and ranking models, deploying them into low-latency serving infrastructure, and closing
the feedback loop. The systems you build will run at massive scale across Apple's infrastructure.

Success in this role means writing production-quality code, reasoning about distributed system tradeoffs, and iterating quickly on model performance.
This is a high-impact role — your work will directly determine whether abuse reaches iCloud users or gets stopped.

<h3>Minimum Qualifications</h3>3+ years of hands-on machine learning engineering experience, including training and deploying models in production

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