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Principle Research Scientist, Siri Innovation Studio

Apple· Siri (Machine Learning and AI)
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full-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Senior research scientist role within Apple’s Siri Innovation Studio, focusing on incubating and deploying innovative ML technologies and agentic AI features for Siri and related speech products, with opportunities to publish and influence product and technical strategy at a global scale.

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end incubations from ideation to deployment
  • Drive advances in applied ML research and development to address strategic priorities across the company
  • Lead novel ML modeling approaches and architectures that unlock new product capabilities
  • Raise the bar for technical excellence within the team through mentorship, collaboration, and example
  • Partner with teams across software, hardware, and design to shape product direction, technical strategy, and deliver scalable ML technologies that delight users

Qualifications

  • MSc or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field; or equivalent track record of incubating and shipping ML features, platforms, and/or products
  • 5+ years of industry experience working within an ML team
  • Deep understanding of the ML model lifecycle for large-scale systems
  • Demonstrated expertise in ML with a publication record in relevant conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, KDD, ACL, ICASSP, InterSpeech)
  • Proficient modeling skills; deep familiarity with toolkits such as JAX, PyTorch, and/or Tensorflow
  • Demonstrated ability to influence high-level architecture decisions and advocate for novel research directions with product and executive leadership
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, able to translate complex technical work for a broad audience
  • Experience working across hardware, software, and design partnerships to bring ML capabilities to production
  • Passion for building AI that is both technically rigorous and meaningfully human

Skills

Required:ML modelingML lifecyclePublication track recordToolkits (JAX, PyTorch, TensorFlow)

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • potential discretionary bonuses or commission payments
  • relocation assistance
  • Apple shareholder opportunities through stock programs
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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