The Senior Applied ML Researcher will focus on designing, training, and deploying advanced models for visual and audio understanding. This role involves tackling complex challenges at the intersection of computer vision, audio signal processing, and multimodal learning. The researcher will collaborate with various teams to apply Deep Machine Learning capabilities to enhance the workflows of millions of creators. The mission is to integrate generative AI with human-centered design principles at Apple.

• 4+ years of experience in deep learning or machine learning engineering
• Strong expertise in deep neural networks and modern training workflows
• 8+ years of hands-on experience with computer vision and/or audio modeling
• Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks, preferably PyTorch
• Solid understanding of linear algebra, probability, and optimization
• PhD in computer science, machine learning, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Publications in top-tier ML conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, or ECCV
• Experience with self-supervised or foundation model pre-training
• Open-source contributions in vision, audio, or multimodal AI

• Design and train deep neural networks for video, image, audio, and audio-visual tasks
• Build models for audio-visual representation learning, cross-modal alignment, and fusion
• Develop solutions for video understanding and temporal modeling
• Implement audio-visual event detection and scene understanding
• Conduct multimodal classification, detection, and localization tasks

• Employees at Apple are often offered comprehensive benefits that support physical and mental well-being—flexible medical plans, confidential counseling, onsite wellness centers at major campuses, and resources for fitness and daily life. Families typically receive fertility support, paid parental leave with gradual return, caregiving leave, and dependent-care guidance, while financial perks commonly include stock grants (with purchase discounts), 401(k) matching, and income-protection coverage. Employees also see robust time off, Apple University learning and tuition reimbursement, donation matching and paid volunteer hours, and deep product and partner discounts.