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Principle Research Scientist, Siri Innovation Studio

Apple· Siri Innovation Studio
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Hybrid (Cupertino, CA and Seattle, WA)$216.2k - $394kFull-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Staff Research Scientist within Apple's Siri team, focusing on incubating and deploying innovative ML-driven features and agentic systems to power Siri and related speech technologies, with opportunities to publish findings and influence product and research directions at Apple’s 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 research and system designML modeling and architecturesCross-functional leadership

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Educational expense reimbursement including tuition
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation may be eligible
  • Apple shareholder opportunities through stock programs
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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