AIML - Machine Learning Researcher, MLR

Play a part in building the next revolution in machine learning technology. We're looking for passionate researchers to work on ambitious, curiosity-driven, long-term research projects. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to work on innovative foundational research in machine learning. As a member of the team, you will be inspired by a diversity of challenging problems, collaborate with world-class machine learning engineers and researchers to impact the future of Apple products, and publish some of your results in high-quality scientific venues.

Description

You should have a strong research background in machine learning or related fields, with a proven record of publications in leading machine learning conferences and journals. In this role, you will have the opportunity to define and pursue a research agenda focused on solving fundamental problems related to data-centric ML and AI agents, such as synthetic data generation, enhancing planning and reasoning capabilities of ML models. You will focus on producing high-quality, reproducible research and advancing our understanding of these areas through rigorous experimentation and close collaboration with colleagues. You will also develop high-quality code, provide technical mentorship, and prepare publications and presentations for top-tier venues. Additionally, you will have opportunities to collaborate with broader teams across Apple.

Preferred Qualifications

Ability to formulate a research problem and design, experiment, implement, and communicate solutions.

Ability to work in a diverse, collaborative environment.

High-quality open-source contributions to related projects.

PhD or equivalent practical experience in Computer Science or a related technical field.

Strong presentation skills for internal and external communications

Minimum Qualifications

Demonstrated expertise in machine learning research

Publication record in relevant conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, etc.)

Strong hands-on experience working with Python and deep learning toolkits such as PyTorch

Strong mathematical skills in linear algebra and statistics

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