Apple
Aesthetics Science ML Research Engineer
$142K–$263K
San Diego, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years in a stated relevant area; industry or academia.
- Education
- Preferred: PhD or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Graphics, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
About the job
Researches, builds, and evaluates multimodal machine-learning and computational-imaging features for photography and visual experiences across Apple products.
What you'll do
- Prototype novel algorithms; train and evaluate machine-learning and generative-AI models; and design custom data-collection efforts.
- Collaborate with research and user-study teams to design experiments and translate subjective study findings into features.
- Work with visual-media experts to develop responsible, intelligent camera systems.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of experience identifying novel problems and delivering viable solutions in multimodal vision-language models, computational photography, image processing, or computer vision, in industry or academia.
- Ability to collaborate across multifunctional teams, communicate effectively, and reason through ambiguous problems.
- Excellent coding skills in Python and deep-learning frameworks.
Nice to have
- Experience developing and training models for agentic workflows, tool calling, or personalized interactions; or building or running AI evaluation platforms.
- Relevant graduate degree or equivalent industry experience; visual-creation experience or appreciation; proficiency in Swift, Objective-C, or Metal; additional language fluency; or ability to travel internationally.
Pay
$142,300 and $263,300 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Swift, Objective-C, Metal
AI focus
Researches and develops multimodal, vision-language, and generative-AI models and evaluation approaches for computational photography and visual creativity.
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