Drimva

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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