AIML - Machine Learning Researcher, MLR

Apple; Paris; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking a passionate ML researcher to contribute to long-term, curiosity‑driven projects across LLMs, VLMs and generative foundation models. You will propose and execute research plans, implement experiments, and publish results to advance our understanding of AI.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams, mentor colleagues, and communicate findings through technical reports and talks, helping shape the future of Apple's products and platforms.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Demonstrated expertise in machine learning research.
• Publication record in relevant conferences and journals.
• Hands-on experience with deep learning toolkits such as JAX, PyTorch or MLX.

Responsibilities

• Propose and execute research plans to advance understanding of ML.
• Collaborate with colleagues to implement experiments and reproduce results.
• Mentor junior researchers and prepare technical reports for publication.

Skills

Machine learning research

Publications

Deep learning

Mentorship

Education

PhD in CS or related field

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

Job description

Summary

Play a part in building the next revolution of machine learning technology. We're looking for a passionate researchers to work on ambitious curiosity driven long-term research projects that will impact the future of Apple, and our products. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to work on innovative foundational research in machine learning focusing on LLMs, VLMs, and more generally generative foundation models, possibly at all steps (pre-training, fine-tuning, steering, efficient inference etc…)

Description

You have a strong research background in machine learning or related fields, and regularly publish your results in the main relevant conference and journal venues, and make sure that your research results are reproducible. You will propose your own research plan to advance our understanding of machine learning and execute it through implementation and experimentation, in collaboration with your colleagues. You will provide technical mentorship and guidance, and prepare technical reports for publication and conference talks. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with broader teams across Apple

Minimum Qualifications

• PhD, or equivalent practical experience, in Computer Science, or related technical field
• Demonstrated expertise in machine learning research.
• Publication record in relevant conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, etc).
• Hands-on experience working with deep learning toolkits such as JAX, PyTorch or MLX

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong mathematical skills in linear algebra, optimization and statistics.
• Ability to formulate a research problem, design, experiment, implement and communicate solutions.
• Ability to work in a diverse collaborative environment.

At Apple, we're not all the same. And that's our greatest strength. We draw on the differences in who we are, what we've experienced, and how we think. Because to create products that serve everyone, we believe in including everyone. Therefore, we are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally. We will work with applicants to make any reasonable accommodations.

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Role Number: 200619263-2911