Senior AI Research Engineer — Personal, Autonomous Agents

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 216,000 - 394,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee stock purchase plan

Discretionary bonuses

Relocation

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, CA is seeking a Principal Applied Research Engineer to drive breakthroughs in self-improving systems, agentic memory, and personalized autonomous multi-agent architectures.

You will shape next-gen intelligent systems learning continuously and coordinating across agents while respecting privacy. The role focuses on translating frontier research into scalable product experiences, integrating advances across hardware and software to impact iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of transformer-based LLMs and multi-modal models.
• Experience designing AI agents for complex reasoning.
• Proficiency with on-device ML constraints and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Advance self-improving systems that learn from deployment signals and adapt in real-world environments.
• Design agentic memory frameworks for long-horizon reasoning and personalization.
• Architect autonomous multi-agent systems with coordination, tool use, and collaboration.
• Lead research translating foundational advances into validated user experiences and scalable architectures.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to define technical direction and deliver ML systems across hardware, software and services.

Skills

Transformer-based LLMs

Multi-modal models

On-device compute

AI agent architectures

Education

MSc or PhD in Computer Science or Machine Learning

Equivalent practical experience in LLM productization

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, CA is seeking a Principal Applied Research Engineer to drive breakthroughs in self-improving systems, agentic memory, and personalized autonomous multi-agent architectures.

You will shape next-gen intelligent systems learning continuously and coordinating across agents while respecting privacy. The role focuses on translating frontier research into scalable product experiences, integrating advances across hardware and software to impact iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and