# AI Operations, Applied AI Research and Design Developer

Act as the technical engine that accelerates our organization's AI ambitions by leading the technical design and validation of new opportunities. Your work proves the viability of hyper scalable and innovative human-centered AI solutions designed to deliver accurate, timely, and compelling metadata and the highest quality video/audio for our content across Movies, TV, Live Sports, and Apple Originals. You will own the technical validation lifecycle, from partnering with product management to translate a pitch into a feasible solution, through the development of a rapid POC to prove its viability. Throughout this journey, your work will be fueled by continuous research into the cutting-edge of AI, ensuring every "go/no-go" recommendation is backed by rigorous, data-driven evidence. Description Collaborate closely with the Operations Product Manager to shape proposed solutions, acting as the technical expert to assess technical feasibility while adhering to responsible AI principles. Curate and own the "golden datasets" and evals used for training, testing, and benchmarking, ensuring all performance claims are grounded in high-quality, representative data. Lead the execution of rapid

- **Id**: 3898239
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-ai-operations-applied-ai-research-and-design-developer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cupertino, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T21:42:36Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T04:16:16Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-12T04:16:16Z
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4404
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Operating Systems, Laptops, Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers, Tablets

## Company

- **Id**: 12
- **Name**: Apple
- **Domain**: apple.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/apple>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Apple Jobs

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 824
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.214
- **Repost share**: 0.006
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 122
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Structured Outputs** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T23:40:21Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-12T04:16:16Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,350 · green card filings: 39; Filings 12m: 6350

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