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Cupertino, California
Source: Apple careers · View original posting
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Apple's Responsible AI and Safety team focuses on innovative technologies, methodologies, and research to enable fantastic user experiences and to push the frontier of machine learning. Our team is looking to hire a leader with a strong track record in Applied Research, who is passionate about ML and foundation models with a focus on responsibility, fairness, and safety.
In this role, you will lead the research and application of ML methods for technologies that power breakthrough user experiences while upholding Apple's values, privacy, and quality standards.
Description
This role leads Apple's Quality Platform Engineering function within Responsible AI — the team responsible for giving engineering teams across Apple Intelligence fast, trustworthy safety signal before code merges, and for extending safety testing coverage to every hardware platform and form factor Apple ships.
Most of this role's impact will come from two things: building a strong team and a healthy team culture from the ground up, and establishing the flywheel that connects Quality Platform Engineering to Product Evaluations & Research and Post-Ship Insights — so fast signal, coverage gaps, and pipeline improvements consistently translate into real engineering decisions and clear leadership visibility, rather than one-off dashboards nobody acts on.You should be technically fluent — comfortable with evaluation pipelines, production ML and
agentic systems, and cross-platform testing — enough to earn credibility with the team, ask sharp questions, and evaluate hard tradeoffs with good judgment. This role moves at a fast pace, and you should be comfortable making product recommendations in ambiguous situations, often with limited or imperfect data.
Just as important are excellent communication, strong product sense to prioritize a team's limited capacity against Apple's highest-risk platforms and use cases, and a track record of hiring and developing technical teams.Prior experience managing or building technical teams is required. Prior exposure to ML evaluation, test infrastructure, or safety-adjacent engineering work is strongly preferred.
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $267,800 and $401,700, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.
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