Apple
Data Scientist - Intelligent Experiences, MLO
$150K–$278K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 17, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on production experience in NLP, computer vision, or multimodal machine learning, including large-scale data pipelines. Preferred software engineering experience includes 5+ years in Python.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related engineering field.
About the job
Designs and operates large-scale multimodal data pipelines and workflows to train, fine-tune, and evaluate LLMs and diffusion models for Apple products.
What you'll do
- Build synthetic-data generation and agentic LLM workflows for data curation, annotation, quality assurance, and evaluation.
- Evaluate synthetic assets and model quality using metrics, judges, human studies, and controlled ablations.
- Partner with modeling, product, and privacy/legal teams to guide data decisions and assess emerging techniques.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related engineering field.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience applying NLP, computer vision, or multimodal machine learning to production systems, including large-scale data pipelines.
Nice to have
- Experience prompting, fine-tuning, and evaluating LLMs or vision-language/diffusion models; familiarity with LoRA/QLoRA, RLHF, DPO, or RAG.
- Strong software engineering skills, including 5+ years in Python and experience with workflow orchestration, cloud platforms, and distributed data processing; publications or open-source work and privacy-preserving data experience are a plus.
Pay
$150,400 and $277,600 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Airflow, AWS, GCP, Spark, Ray, LoRA/QLoRA, RAG
AI focus
Builds synthetic-data generation and agentic LLM workflows, and fine-tunes and evaluates LLMs, vision-language models, and diffusion models for downstream tasks.
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