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Staff Applied Research and ML, Responsible AI and Safety

Apple· Machine Learning and AI
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Hybrid (Seattle, Washington; Cupertino, California)$205.4k - $374.3kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Leadership and research role focused on building and evaluating safe, responsible AI systems. Responsibilities include red teaming for LLMs and diffusion models, developing mitigations and safeguards for safe deployment in Apple products, and creating tools, metrics, and datasets to assess and interpret safety across the model deployment lifecycle.

Responsibilities

  • Research and advance red teaming methods for LLM's and diffusion models
  • Research and develop mitigations and safeguards to ensure safe deployment of LLM's in Apple products
  • Develop tools, metrics, and datasets for assessing and evaluating the safety of LLM's over the model deployment lifecycle, as well as methods and tools to help interpret and explain failures in language models

Qualifications

  • PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related technical field (helpful)
  • Demonstrated expertise in ML research and/or ML production deployment lifecycle
  • Deep understanding of LLM
  • Hands-on experience with deep learning toolkits such as Tensorflow or PyTorch
  • Ability to formulate a research problem, design, experiment, implement and communicate solutions
  • Ability to work in a diverse collaborative environment
  • Publication record in relevant conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, EMNLP, etc.)
  • Experience working on Responsible AI and AI Safety

Skills

Required:Research problem formulationExperimentationCommunicationML tooling (TensorFlow, PyTorch)LLM / diffusion model expertise

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • educational expense reimbursement including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commissions (potential) and relocation eligibility
  • participation in Apple’s employee stock programs (RSU) and employee stock purchase plan
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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