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AIML - Senior ML Research Engineer, AFM Safety

Cupertino, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-29 → 2026-09-28

Core

Lead research and application of safety methods for Apple's foundation models, focusing on agentic safety, model character/persona, and multimodal safety (audio/vision).

Role type

Senior IC ML Research Engineer (Safety)

Builds

Safety solutions, evaluation data, and alignment methods for large language models and multimodal systems

Domain

AI Safety, Foundation Models, Large Language Models

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Applied ML, model training, safety research, coding in real-world codebases, LLM safety post-training, agentic safety, multimodal safety (audio/vision), model character/persona design

Preferred skills

PhD in CS/ML, LLM post-training experience, agentic safety, multimodal safety, cross-team collaboration

Technologies

LLMs, audio/vision models, agentic systems

Responsibilities

Define and deliver safety methods for foundation models; research safety risks of agentic systems; safeguard model character and persona; build training and evaluation frameworks for safety; research alignment and robustness methods; partner with product teams on requirements and delivery

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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