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AIML - Senior Applied ML Research Scientist, Accessibility

Apple· Machine Learning and AI
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Cupertino, California$184.7k - $324.8kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Applied Machine Learning Research Scientist on the Human-Centered Machine Intelligence (HCMI) team within AIML at Apple, focused on Accessibility. Develop ML modeling approaches, advance accessibility research, design experiments, evaluate with human-centered methods, partner with product teams, and share contributions via internal impact and external publications.

Responsibilities

  • Develop new ML modeling approaches with the potential for both research and product impact.
  • Advance the state of the art on Accessibility-related problems.
  • Design and execute experiments to evaluate machine learning modeling approaches.
  • Evaluate ML-powered applications using human-centered methods.
  • Partner with product teams to bring research into features that reach users.
  • Share contributions through internal impact and external publication in top ML and HCI venues.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction or related field.
  • Experienced researcher, with 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.
  • Proven history of turning research contributions into tools, datasets or products, or strong potential to do so.

Skills

Required:multimodal modelingagentic systems and multi-turn interactionhuman-centered evaluation
Nice to have:privacy-preserving MLdata collection / curation

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and reimbursement for certain educational expenses.
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission payments may be available.
  • Relocation assistance.
Last updated Aug 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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