AIML - Machine Learning Manager - Responsible AI and Safety

Apple, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple's Responsible AI and Safety team is seeking a leader with a strong track record in AI red‑teaming and adversarial security research to proactively identify vulnerabilities in generative AI systems before they reach users.

You will build, mentor, and lead a high‑performing team, define robust safety policies, oversee dataset design and mitigation architectures, and stay hands‑on to analyze results and drive continuous improvements in safety and user trust.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in machine learning, including work with generative models (Transformers, LLMs, VLMs) or NLP/Computer Vision.
• Proven track record of leading technical teams through ambiguity to deliver high‑quality, high‑impact results.
• Proficiency in Python and data science libraries with strong skills in data analysis and applied ML workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead a red-teaming and safety program for generative AI features.
• Mentor and develop a high-performing ML engineering team.
• Define safety policies and oversee dataset design and mitigation architectures.
• Collaborate with leadership, design, engineering, legal, and regulatory teams.
• Analyze evaluation results and conduct failure investigations to improve safety and trust.

Skills

Leadership

Generative models

Python

Data analysis

Communication

Failure analysis

Responsible AI

Tools

Pandas

Job description

Apple's Responsible AI and Safety team focuses on innovative technologies, methodologies, and research to enable fantastic user experiences and to push the frontier of machine learning. Our team is looking to hire a leader with a strong track record in AI red-teaming and adversarial security research, who is passionate about proactively finding real vulnerabilities in generative AI systems before they reach users.In this role, you will lead a dedicated red-teaming team, building and running an independent program that actively probes Apple Intelligence features for safety and security risks, while upholding Apple's values, privacy, and quality standards.

We are seeking a visionary Machine Learning Engineering Leader to build, mentor, and develop a high-performing team driving Responsible AI efforts for global generative AI products. In this highly cross-functional role, you will partner with leadership, design, engineering, legal, and regulatory teams to define robust safety policies that align with product goals. You will provide critical technical direction for dataset design and safety alignment strategies, while directly overseeing the implementation of end-to-end mitigation architectures in production. Pre and Post-launch, you will remain hands-on—analyzing evaluation results, conducting failure investigations, and leveraging human and automated feedback to continuously improve feature safety and build user trust. As a champion for your team, you will foster a inclusive culture of technical excellence, empower senior leadership with safety recommendations, and systematically remove roadblocks to ensure team success.

• 5+ years of experience in machine learning, including work with generative models (Transformers, LLMs, VLMs), NLP, or Computer Vision, with 2+ years directly managing engineering teams
• Proven track record of leading technical teams through ambiguity to deliver high‑quality, high‑impact results.
• Proficiency in Python and data science libraries (e.g. Pandas) with strong skills in data analysis, visualization, and applied ML workflows
• Excellent communication skills and proven ability to translate complex technical insights for cross‑functional partners, senior leadership, and executives
• Strong analytical and independent problem-solving skills, with ability to guide teams through ambiguity
• Familiarity interpreting outputs from human and automated evaluations, particularly with complex, nuanced, or multi‑labeled data, to inform mitigation improvements and shipping decisions
• Experience collecting and analyzing language, vision, or multimodal datasets
• Background in failure analysis, quality engineering, or robustness testing for ML‑driven systems
• Comfortable leading a team that works with sensitive or potentially offensive content
• Experience working in the Responsible AI space
• Publication record in relevant conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, EMNLP, etc.)
• Experience working on Responsible AI and AI SafetyStrong organizational and operational skills working with large, multi-functional, and diverse teams
• Curiosity about fairness and bias in generative AI systems, and a strong desire to help make the technology more equitable
• Strong organizational and operational skills working with large, multi-functional, and diverse teams