Apple
AIML - Senior Applied ML Research Scientist, Accessibility
$175K–$325K
Cupertino, California +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 17, 2026
- Location
- Cupertino, California
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Seattle, Washington - Education
- PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, or related field.
About the job
Develop and evaluate machine-learning research for accessibility, partnering with product teams to bring human-centered technologies to Apple users and sharing findings through publication.
What you'll do
- Develop ML modeling approaches and advance accessibility research; design and run experiments.
- Evaluate ML-powered applications using human-centered methods.
- Partner with product teams to ship research into features and publish research contributions.
What they ask for
- PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field.
- Research depth in one or more of: multimodal modeling, agentic systems and tool use, computer vision, speech, or foundation model post-training and evaluation.
- Publication and research record commensurate with seniority.
- History of turning research into tools, datasets, or products, or strong potential to do so.
Nice to have
- Accessibility research experience or demonstrated commitment to accessibility.
- Experience with data collection or curation, human-centered evaluation, or developing and shipping ML products; strong writing and presentation skills.
Pay
USD $184,700 and $324,800 base salary; USD $175,000 and $308,500 base salary
AI focus
Research and develop ML for accessibility, including multimodal reasoning, agentic systems and multi-turn interaction, contextual understanding, privacy-preserving ML, and synthetic data and evaluation methodologies.
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