MLops Engineer
AppleAbout the role
Play a part in shaping the future of human-computer interaction. As an MLOps Engineer, you will be the backbone of the machine learning infrastructure that powers our speech, audio, and conversational AI teams - ensuring their models are trained on the best possible data. You will bridge the gap between research, data science, and engineering, owning the full ML lifecycle from large-scale data pipelines and distributed GPU training through to low-latency, high-fidelity inference and optimization. You'll partner closely with Audio ML Engineers, Speech ML Engineers, and ML Data Scientists to remove friction across their workflows and accelerate the path from research to product.
Responsibilities
The MLOps Engineer will drive end-to-end quality and operational excellence across data ingestion, model training, deployment pipelines, and MLOps tooling for our speech and audio ML platforms. This hire will:
- Build, deploy, and optimize production-grade systems with a strong emphasis on scalable, GPU-accelerated infrastructure
- Own the training infrastructure that powers distributed and self-supervised model training on HPC and Slurm-managed clusters
- Own the inference pipelines that bring low-latency, high-fidelity audio and speech models to production
- Establish standard methodologies for model integration, deployment, monitoring, and reproducibility using CI/CD principles
Minimum Qualifications
- 3 years in software engineering with demonstrated experience in large-scale software system design and implementation
- Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Machine Learning, Operations Research, or a related field
- Proven track record of shipping and maintaining production-grade ML systems end-to-end
- Hands-on experience with GPU-based model training and inference, including distributed/multi-node training
- Experience operating workloads on HPC environments and job schedulers such as Slurm
- Proficiency in Python and familiarity with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting speech and audio ML pipelines (e.g., ASR, TTS, speaker recognition, voice isolation, generative speech) and large-scale audio data processing
- Experience with infrastructure for self-supervised and large-model training
- Deep familiarity with GPU performance tuning, mixed-precision training, and distributed training frameworks
- Familiarity with data quality frameworks, model monitoring, drift detection, and observability practices in production
- Experience optimizing models for on-device or Apple silicon inference
About Apple
Apple Inc. is a technology company that designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and services. Its core product lines are the iPhone line of smartphones, the iPad line of tablet computers, and the Mac line of personal computers, and it offers its products online and through a chain of retail stores known as Apple Stores. Other products include Apple Watch, Apple TV, and AirPods, along with services and platforms such as iOS, macOS, the App Store, and Apple TV.
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