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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9 days ago
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TL;DR · Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer, LLM Post-training (Multilinguality)

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 overcoming core training challenges in instruction following, tool use, deep reasoning, and architectural adaptation to create multilingual capabilities. You will collaborate with experts to explore novel training strategies, design robust evaluation methodologies for factuality and utility, and drive data strategies involving human and synthetic data generation, automated filtering, and curriculum learning. The position requires expertise in Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models. Candidates must be proficient in Python and major deep learning frameworks like JAX or PyTorch, with additional experience in Bash, Java, C, or C++. The work centers on solving complex problems in multilinguality to enable users to communicate across language barriers through advanced model capabilities.

What you'll do

  • Translate product requirements into specific model capabilities and research goals.
  • 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 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

  • Minimum of 4 years of experience in machine learning and NLP focusing on LLMs, post-training, or reinforcement learning.
  • Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
  • Proficiency in Python and a major deep learning framework such as JAX or PyTorch.
  • Experience developing state-of-the-art LLMs that are natively multilingual across various languages.
  • Experience training large models at scale with familiarity in distributed training challenges and trade-offs.
  • Ability to formulate research problems and implement solutions using Python, Bash, Java, or C/C++.
  • Experience designing and deploying real-world, large-scale, user-facing LLM or Machine Translation systems.
  • Strong communication skills for cross-functional collaboration between Research and Product teams.

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