AIML - Machine Learning Researcher, MLR
Software Engineering
Seattle, WA, USA
USD 142,300-263,300 / year + Equity
Posted on Jul 15, 2026
Play a part in building the next revolution in machine learning technology. We’re looking for passionate researchers to work on ambitious, curiosity-driven, long-term research projects. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to work on innovative foundational research in machine learning. As a member of the team, you will be inspired by a diversity of challenging problems, collaborate with world-class machine learning engineers and researchers to impact the future of Apple products, and publish some of your results in high-quality scientific venues.
You have a strong research background in machine learning or related fields and regularly publish your work in leading conferences and journals. You are committed to producing high-quality, reproducible research. In this role, you will have the opportunity to define and pursue a research agenda focused on fundamental problems in machine learning, including efficient training algorithms and models with fast inference, especially with multi-modal, multi-task, and reasoning capabilities. You will advance our understanding of these areas through rigorous experimentation and close collaboration with colleagues. You will also develop high-quality code, provide technical mentorship, and prepare publications and presentations for top-tier venues. Additionally, you will have opportunities to collaborate with broader teams across Apple.
- Demonstrated expertise in machine learning research.
- Publication record in relevant conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, etc.)
- Strong hands-on experience working with Python and deep learning toolkits such as PyTorch.
- Strong mathematical skills in linear algebra and statistics
- PhD or equivalent practical experience in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Ability to formulate a research problem and design, experiment, implement, and communicate solutions.
- Ability to work in a diverse, collaborative environment
- High-quality open-source contributions to related projects
- Strong presentation skills for internal and external communications