Apple
AIML - Machine Learning Researcher, Data and ML Innovation
$142K–$278K
Santa Clara, California +1 · Full-time · Posted Jul 24, 2025
- Location
- Santa Clara, California
Seattle, Washington - Education
- PhD, MS or equivalent experience
About the job
Develop machine learning and NLP systems for search relevance, ranking, and query understanding, while advancing domain-specific LLMs and bringing generative AI research into Apple products.
What you'll do
- Analyze search ranking and relevance needs; build models and end-to-end production search systems.
- Develop, fine-tune, and evaluate domain-specific LLMs and conduct applied generative AI research for production.
- Translate product requirements into modeling and engineering tasks, integrate search into Apple products, and process distributed data.
What they ask for
- Experience in machine learning, deep learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, or data mining.
- Experience with prompt engineering, LLM fine-tuning and evaluation, and developing data collection, annotation, or management tooling for LLMs.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or C++.
- PhD, MS, or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Excellent data analytical skills; good interpersonal skills and team player.
- PhD preferred.
Pay
USD $142,300 and $263,300 (base salary); USD $150,400 and $277,600 (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, Java, C++, Spark, Hadoop MapReduce, Hive, Impala
AI focus
Develop, fine-tune, and evaluate domain-specific LLMs, and conduct applied research to bring generative AI into production-ready Apple products.
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