ML Engineer, Responsible AI and Safety

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Cupertino, CA
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$150,400–$225,300 / yr
Posted
88 days ago
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TL;DR · ML Engineer, Responsible AI and Safety

The AIML - ML Engineer, Responsible AI and Safety joins a team building large-scale machine learning systems to protect users from emerging threats and ensure product integrity. This role involves owning the full lifecycle of abuse detection models, from prototyping and data analysis to deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement. You will design and deploy production-grade models to mitigate abuse across text, image, and audio modalities while architecting end-to-end systems for real-time automated enforcement. Key responsibilities include driving data strategies, creating synthetic data pipelines, and collaborating with researchers to translate adversarial insights into production-ready code. Required skills include proficiency in Python and deep learning toolkits like JAX, PyTorch, and Tensorflow, alongside experience with LLMs, foundation models, and diffusion models to solve complex security and safety challenges.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and deploy production-grade ML models to detect and mitigate abuse across text, image, and audio modalities.
  • Own the full ML lifecycle from initial prototyping and data analysis to production deployment and continuous monitoring.
  • Drive data strategies by analyzing distribution gaps and developing synthetic data pipelines and automated annotation systems.
  • Architect end-to-end systems to monitor platform activity and trigger automated enforcement actions in real-time.
  • Translate adversarial insights into production-ready code to build robust security and abuse detection systems.
  • Define project requirements and technical directions for security solutions in coordination with research and product teams.

What we're looking for

  • 2+ years experience shipping machine learning models to production.
  • Strong familiarity with research fundamentals, machine learning principles, and development methodologies around LLMs, foundation models, and diffusion models.
  • Proficient programming skills in Python and deep learning toolkits like JAX, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
  • Ability to work with sensitive and offensive content to build security and abuse detection systems.
  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field (preferred).
  • Hands-on experience fine-tuning or aligning large language models for security or safety applications (preferred).
  • Experience building large-scale data processing pipelines and ML infrastructure (preferred).
  • Experience driving technical projects and collaborating with large, diverse, cross-functional teams (preferred).

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