AIML - Machine Learning Researcher, Data and ML Innovation

As a member of our fast-paced group, you'll have the unique and rewarding opportunity to shape upcoming products from Apple. We are looking for people with excellent applied machine learning, NLP experience and solid engineering skills in creating outstanding search and NLP services. This role will have the following responsibilities:

• Analyzing search ranking and relevance requirements, issues and opportunities

• Developing, fine-tuning, and evaluating domain specific Large Language Models for various tasks and applications in Apple's AI powered products

• Conducting applied research to transfer the pioneering research in generative AI to production ready technologies

• Understanding product requirements, translate them into modeling tasks and engineering tasks

• Building machine learned models for search relevance, ranking and query understanding problems

• Integrating search functions into Apple products, such as Siri, Spotlight, Safari, Messages, Lookup, etc.

• Building end-to-end production system including query understanding and ranking to power search

• Applying Spark, Hadoop MapReduce, Hive, Impala to perform distributed data processing

• PhD, MS or equivalent experience

• Experience in machine learning, deep learning, information retrieval, natural language processing or data mining

• Experience of prompt engineering, fine-tuning, evaluating, and developing data collection/annotation/management tooling for LLMs.

• Proficiency in one of following languages: Python, Go, Java, C+ Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent data analytical skills

• Good interpersonal skills and team player

• PhD preferred