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AIML - Machine Learning Manager, Red Teaming - Responsible AI and Safety

Apple· Machine Learning and AI
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Hybrid (SF Bay Area)full-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Lead a dedicated red-teaming team within Apple’s Responsible AI and Safety group to proactively identify vulnerabilities in generative AI systems. Build an independent red-teaming program, hire and develop engineers, manage external partnerships, and report program impact to leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Build and lead a team of red-teaming engineers, each with sustained ownership of a feature cluster
  • Set an independent red-teaming agenda, distinct from standard evaluation, focused on active vulnerability discovery
  • Own coverage strategy across pre-ship qualification, post-ship monitoring, and foundation model red-teaming, in partnership with relevant model teams
  • Define division of responsibility with adjacent security teams on cross-cutting risks (e.g., prompt injection) and coordinate escalation paths
  • Own external red-teaming partnerships, including scoping value, cost, and pipeline integration
  • Define, instrument, and report on red-teaming success criteria to leadership on a recurring basis
  • Provide technical direction on automated red-teaming capabilities
  • Work with highly sensitive content, including exposure to offensive and controversial materialBuild and report high visibility and compliant reporting capabilities

Qualifications

  • MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or related fields; or an equivalent qualification acquired through other avenues.
  • Experience working with generative models for evaluation and/or product development, and up-to-date knowledge of common challenges and failures.
  • Strong engineering skills and experience in writing production-quality code in Python.
  • Deep experience in foundation model-based AI programming (e.g.: using DSPy for optimizing foundation model prompts) and a drive to innovate in this space.
  • Experience working with noisy, crowd-based data labels and human evaluations.
  • Publication record in relevant conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, EMNLP, etc.)
  • Experience working on Responsible AI and AI Safety
  • Strong organizational and operational skills working with large, multi-functional, and diverse teams.
  • Curiosity about fairness and bias in generative AI systems, and a strong desire to help make the technology more equitable.

Skills

Required:red-teaming and adversarial security researchPython production-quality coding

Benefits

  • Apple is an equal opportunity employer
  • Accessibility and reasonable accommodations information provided in job posting
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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