Senior ML Engineer, Responsible AI and Safety

Apple Inc

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Location
San Francisco, CA
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$184,700–$324,800 / yr
Posted
87 days ago
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TL;DR · Senior ML Engineer, Responsible AI and Safety

AIML - Senior ML Engineer, Responsible AI and Safety will join the Responsible AI group within the Human-Centered Machine Intelligence organization. This senior role leads the responsible AI lifecycle for generative features, focusing on assessing risks, defining policies, and developing mitigation strategies. You will build models, tools, datasets, and evaluation methods to monitor and diagnose failures in large language and multimodal models. Key responsibilities include designing human and automated evaluations, performing failure analysis, and driving safety alignment strategies for production integration. Required technical skills include Python, Pandas, and experience with Transformers, LLMs, VLMs, NLP, and Computer Vision. The work addresses the technical and business challenges of ensuring fairness, robustness, and uncertainty estimation while minimizing unintended consequences across people and systems in global generative AI products.

What you'll do

  • Lead the end-to-end responsible AI lifecycle by assessing risks and defining safety policies.
  • Develop and implement architecture mitigation and safety alignment strategies for generative models.
  • Build models, tools, and datasets to monitor and diagnose failures in production systems.
  • Design human and automated evaluation methods for complex and multi-labeled data.
  • Analyze multimodal datasets to improve the safety and robustness of large language models.
  • Incorporate human and automated feedback to continuously improve feature safety post-launch.
  • Conduct research on model fairness, uncertainty estimation, and societal impacts of AI.

What we're looking for

  • 3+ years of proven ability in machine learning, including work with generative models (Transformers, LLMs, VLMs), NLP, or Computer Vision.
  • Proficiency in Python and data science libraries with strong skills in data analysis, visualization, and applied ML workflows.
  • Experience designing and supporting human and automated evaluations, particularly with complex, nuanced, or multi-labeled data.
  • Hands-on experience collecting and analyzing language, vision, or multimodal datasets.
  • Background in failure analysis, quality engineering, or robustness testing for ML-driven systems.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills to translate technical insights for cross-functional partners, senior leadership, and executives.
  • Strong analytical and independent problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity.
  • Must be comfortable working with sensitive or potentially offensive content.
  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field, or equivalent experience (preferred).
  • Proven success contributing in a highly cross-functional environment (preferred).
  • Experience shipping complex AI systems at global scale (preferred).
  • Background in model explainability, uncertainty estimation, or interpretability (preferred).

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