Senior Simulation Machine Learning Engineer - Special Projects

Play a role in bringing Apple technology to the world. We are looking for a hardworking, dedicated, and results-oriented Animation Engineer. You would join a team building simulation art assets. Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other's ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It's the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you'll do more than join something - you'll add something.

As a Senior Simulation Machine Learning Engineer, you will join an innovation-driven team advancing Apple's simulation and synthetic data technology to support a wide range of AI/ML initiatives. You will design, prototype, and productionize systems that generate high-quality 3D scenarios and multi-modal synthetic datasets used throughout Apple's ML ecosystem.\n\nWe're looking for an engineer with deep experience, strong ML intuition, and the ability to turn ambitions into robust tools. You should be comfortable exploring new ideas, iterating quickly, and driving solutions from prototype to polished implementation. Collaboration is essential - you will partner closely with engineers, animators, technical artists, and ML researchers across the organization. You will play a key role in shaping Apple's next generation of AI/ML capabilities by defining how simulation data is generated, validated, and delivered at scale.

5+ years of professional experience in ML, simulation, graphics, or related fields.\n Strong proficiency in Python and modern machine learning techniques.\n Working knowledge of C++ and robust software engineering fundamentals.\n Experience with LLMs, VLMs, diffusion models, world models, or similar generative/modeling frameworks.\n Experience with 3D data, scene representations, and rendering fundamentals.\n Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills are key.

Familiarity with USD format and tools\n Experience with neural rendering, 3D generative models, learned simulation techniques.\n Experience guiding technical direction, influencing architecture in a software engineering team\n Understanding of real-time and offline rendering pipelines.\n Experience with animation\n Experience with complex industrial or commercial simulation systems or large-scale data generation workflows.