Apple Hiring 600 Silicon and AI Engineers in Austin
Apple expanded its Austin campus hiring with 600 open roles in custom silicon design, machine learning, and Siri AI teams, as the company races to integrate on-device AI capabilities into every product line.
Why Is the Company Hiring?
Apple Intelligence on-device AI features require expanded silicon-ML co-design teams
M-series chip roadmap acceleration demands additional custom GPU and NPU designers
Siri overhaul using large language models needs significantly more ML engineering talent
Austin offers competitive real estate and talent costs compared to Cupertino
Impact Analysis
The hiring will expand Apple's Austin workforce to over 10,000 employees, making it the company's largest campus outside Cupertino. Roles include chip architects, firmware engineers, and ML researchers with compensation packages competitive with Bay Area rates. The expansion strengthens Austin's position as a major semiconductor and AI talent hub.
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