Senior Applied ML Research Scientist – Accessibility & Impact

Apple Inc.; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. seeks a Senior Applied ML Research Scientist in Pittsburgh to contribute to AIML's Human-Centered Machine Intelligence (HCMI) team.

You will develop novel ML approaches, advance accessibility-related research, and partner with product teams to ship privacy-conscious, user-centered features. Applicants should hold a PhD and a strong publication record, with experience in multimodal modeling, computer vision, speech, or foundation models.

Qualifications

• PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction or related field.
• Experienced researcher with depth in multimodal modeling, agentic systems and tool use, computer vision, speech, or foundation model post-training and evaluation.
• Publication and research record commensurate with seniority.
• Proven history of turning research contributions into tools, datasets or products, or strong potential to do so.

Responsibilities

• Develop new ML modeling approaches with potential for research and product impact.
• Advance the state of the art on Accessibility-related problems.
• Design and execute experiments to evaluate ML modeling approaches.
• Evaluate ML-powered applications using human-centered methods.
• Partner with product teams to bring research into features that reach users.
• Share contributions through internal impact and external publication in top ML and HCI venues.

Skills

Multimodal modeling

Agentic systems

Computer vision

Speech

Foundation models

Education

PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, HCI or related field

Job description

Apple Inc. seeks a Senior Applied ML Research Scientist in Pittsburgh to contribute to AIML's Human-Centered Machine Intelligence (HCMI) team.

You will develop novel ML approaches, advance accessibility-related research, and partner with product teams to ship privacy-conscious, user-centered features. Applicants should hold a PhD and a strong publication record, with experience in multimodal modeling, computer vision, speech, or foundation models.