Apple
Research Engineer / Scientist
$216K–$325K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years with a PhD, or 8+ years with an MS.
- Education
- PhD and 5+ years or MS and 8+ years of experience; PhD in a related field preferred.
About the job
Leads training-data strategy, model evaluation, and data systems across the foundation-model lifecycle to improve model quality and guide product and release decisions.
What you'll do
- Set strategy for training data and evaluation, including data acquisition, curation, synthetic generation, benchmarks, and release standards.
- Lead evaluation and data studies, including contamination controls, model-based judging, and product-aligned measures of user experience.
- Direct large-scale data-system architecture and lead technical standards, cross-team adoption, mentoring, and, where applicable, team management.
What they ask for
- PhD and 5+ years, or MS and 8+ years, in machine learning or data infrastructure, including leading technical work at scale.
- Deep expertise in LLMs or multimodal foundation models, with depth in evaluation methodology or large-scale training data systems and working fluency in the other.
- Track record of training-data or evaluation work on large models that measurably improved quality or changed how models are built.
- Hands-on proficiency in Python and an ML framework such as PyTorch or JAX.
Nice to have
- Experience with training data across model-training stages, multimodal data, source code, benchmarks, judging, contamination controls, or human evaluation.
- Experience with distributed data pipelines, data governance, or managing engineers or researchers.
Pay
$216,200 and $324,800 USD base salary
Tools
Python, PyTorch, JAX, Apache Beam, Spark
AI focus
Develops foundation models by leading training-data strategy and curation, evaluation, synthetic data generation, and systems that support model training and product-quality decisions.
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