Apple
AIML - Machine Learning Research
$142K–$263K
Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Nov 19, 2025
- Experience
- 1+ years of ML experience in search, natural language processing/understanding, or conversational AI.
- Education
- MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science or Machine Learning with a specialty in reinforcement learning, or a related field.
About the job
Researches and develops reinforcement-learning methods and LLM post-training for question answering and Apple Intelligence features, taking models from research through production deployment.
What you'll do
- Design and develop reinforcement-learning technologies, algorithms, and end-user experiences for generative-model post-training.
- Collaborate across research, engineering, and production teams to turn research advances into deployable systems.
- Work across the ML lifecycle, including data collection, model training, evaluation, and deployment.
What they ask for
- 1+ years of ML experience in search, natural language processing/understanding, or conversational AI.
- Experience with LLM post-training, including SFT, RLHF, RLAIF, Reward Modeling, Chain-of-thought, or agentic LLM.
- Hands-on experience building RL pipelines and training agents in simulation or real-world environments.
- MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science or Machine Learning with a specialty in reinforcement learning, or a related field.
Nice to have
- Publications in machine learning, including natural language processing.
- Strong product intuition and ownership.
Pay
$142,300 and $263,300 (USD, base salary)
Tools
SFT, RLHF, RLAIF, Reward Modeling, Chain-of-thought, LLMs
AI focus
Applied research and development of reinforcement-learning algorithms and LLM post-training for question answering, summarization, and Apple Intelligence products; transfer generative AI research into production-ready systems.
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