Senior Applied ML Researcher - Video & Audio AI

Apple Inc.; Cupertino, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Applied ML Researcher to design, train, and deploy state-of-the-art models for visual and audio understanding.

You will collaborate with researchers, engineers, and product teams to apply deep learning to assist creators, elevating workflows with Apple’s human-centered design principles. The role focuses on video, image, and audio tasks, with opportunities to work on on-device deployment and cross-modal fusion within a creative user base.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in deep learning or ML engineering.
• Strong expertise in deep neural networks and training workflows.
• 8+ years hands-on experience with CV and/or audio modeling.
• Proficiency in Python and PyTorch.
• Solid understanding of linear algebra, probability, and optimization.
• Translate problems into dataset requirements and model design.

Responsibilities

• Design and train models for video, image, and audio tasks.
• Build audio-visual representation learning and cross-modal fusion models.
• Develop solutions for video understanding and temporal modeling.
• Create audio-visual event detection and multimodal classification.

Skills

Deep learning

Python

PyTorch

Computer vision

Audio modeling

Linear algebra

Education

PhD in computer science or ML

Tools

Objective-C

Swift

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Applied ML Researcher to design, train, and deploy state-of-the-art models for visual and audio understanding.

You will collaborate with researchers, engineers, and product teams to apply deep learning to assist creators, elevating workflows with Apple’s human-centered design principles. The role focuses on video, image, and audio tasks, with opportunities to work on on-device deployment and cross-modal fusion within a creative user base.