Applied ML Engineer - Responsible AI & Abuse Detection

Apple Inc.; Cupertino, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. seeks an Applied ML Engineer for Responsible AI and Safety in Cupertino. You will own full ML lifecycle, shipping production models to detect abuse across text, image, and audio modalities while protecting user privacy.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years shipping models, strong ML fundamentals, and experience with LLMs and diffusion models. Collaboration with research, engineering, and product teams is essential to deliver robust security solutions.

Qualifications

• 2+ years shipping ML models to production.
• Experience with LLMs, foundation models, or diffusion models.
• Proficient in Python and DL toolkits.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy production-grade ML models for abuse detection across modalities.
• Own ML lifecycle from prototyping to deployment and monitoring.
• Drive data strategy to improve model performance and automate annotation.
• Architect end-to-end systems for monitoring and enforcement actions in real-time.
• Collaborate with engineering, research, and product teams to define requirements and direction.

Skills

ML fundamentals

LLMs & foundation models

Python programming

Security and abuse detection

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/ML

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

JAX

Job description

Apple Inc. seeks an Applied ML Engineer for Responsible AI and Safety in Cupertino. You will own full ML lifecycle, shipping production models to detect abuse across text, image, and audio modalities while protecting user privacy.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years shipping models, strong ML fundamentals, and experience with LLMs and diffusion models. Collaboration with research, engineering, and product teams is essential to deliver robust security solutions.