Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer, LLM Post-training (Multilinguality)

Apple Inc

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New York, NY
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$184,700–$324,800 / yr
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54 days ago
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TL;DR · Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer, LLM Post-training (Multilinguality)

The AIML - Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer, LLM Post-training (Multilinguality) joins the Translation & Multilingual Intelligence team to develop next-generation Apple Foundation Models. This role focuses on transforming models into intelligent assistants capable of performing multilingual tasks across the ecosystem. Key responsibilities include designing end-to-end post-training strategies, researching high-quality human and synthetic data generation, and developing robust evaluation methodologies for helpfulness and factuality. You will address core training challenges in instruction following, tool use, deep reasoning, and architectural adaptation. The position requires proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks like JAX or PyTorch, along with experience in NLP, reinforcement learning, and distributed training. You will work to improve multilingual response quality and locale coverage while translating product requirements into specific model capabilities.

What you'll do

  • Translate product requirements into specific model capabilities and research objectives.
  • Improve observed loss patterns across different stages of model training.
  • Research methods for high-quality human and synthetic data generation.
  • Implement automated data filtering and curriculum learning to improve multilingual response quality.
  • Design robust evaluation methodologies to measure model helpfulness, factuality, and utility.
  • Develop and iterate on end-to-end post-training strategies to unlock specific model behaviors.
  • Explore novel training strategies and architectural adaptations for large-scale models.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of experience in machine learning and NLP with a focus on LLMs, post-training, or reinforcement learning.
  • Proficient programming skills in Python and a major deep learning framework such as JAX or PyTorch.
  • Masters/PhD, or equivalent practical experience, in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
  • Experience developing state-of-the-art LLMs that are natively multilingual (preferred).
  • Experience training large models at scale with familiarity in distributed training challenges (preferred).
  • Ability to formulate research problems and implement solutions in Python, Bash, Java, C, or C++ (preferred).
  • Experience in design and deployment of real-world, large-scale, user-facing LLM or Machine Translation systems (preferred).
  • Strong communication skills and a passion for working cross-functionally across Research and Product teams (preferred).

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