Senior Applied ML Researcher

Apple • Cupertino, CA

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About The Position

We are seeking a Senior Applied ML Researcher to design, train, and deploy
state-of-the-art models for visual and audio understanding. You will work on
challenging problems at the intersection of computer vision, audio signal
processing, and multimodal learning, enabling intelligent systems that can see,
hear, and reason about the world. You will collaborate closely with research
scientists, engineers, and product teams to find novel applications of Deep
Machine Learning capabilities to assist our creative user base. Your mission is
to elevate the workflows of millions of creators by combining generative AI with
Apple’s human-centered design principles.

DESCRIPTION

Design and train deep neural networks for video, image, audio, and audio-visual
tasks. Build models for audio-visual representation learning, cross-modal
alignment, and fusion. Develop solutions for tasks such as: Video understanding
and temporal modeling. Audio-visual event detection. Speech, sound, and scene
understanding. Multimodal classification, detection, and localization.

Requirements

• MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 4+ years of experience in deep learning or machine learning engineering
• strong expertise in deep neural networks and modern training workflows
• 8 years + Hands-on experience with computer vision and/or audio modeling
• Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch preferred)
• Solid understanding of linear algebra, probability, and optimization
• Ability to build intuition from problem statement and translate to dataset requirement, neural network design and loss functions

Nice To Haves

• PhD in computer science, machine learning, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Publications in top-tier ML conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, etc.)
• Experience with self-supervised or foundation model pre-training
• Open-source contributions in vision, audio, or multimodal AI
• Bonus: Experience with Objective-C and/or Swift for on-device deployment

Responsibilities

• Design and train deep neural networks for video, image, audio, and audio-visual tasks.
• Build models for audio-visual representation learning, cross-modal alignment, and fusion.
• Develop solutions for tasks such as: Video understanding and temporal modeling.
• Audio-visual event detection.
• Speech, sound, and scene understanding.
• Multimodal classification, detection, and localization.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees