# Generative AI Applied Scientist - Services Special Projects

Join our Apple Services Special Projects Team and help build the next generation of GenAI solutions for millions of people, upholding the user privacy and security that Apple customers know and expect! Our team shapes the future of Apple's technologies, experiences, and services by building state-of-the-art models, infrastructure, and tools. If you want a collaborative environment where your expertise is valued, and you want to work on hard generative AI and retrieval problems that haven't been solved, this may be a role for you. We are especially interested in scientists who care about what and how models learn, and who use that understanding to make models more accurate, efficient, and robust. Description We are seeking a Machine Learning Scientist with a strong track record in applied AI research. You will train and improve the models behind large-scale search, retrieval, and ranking systems, and turn the latest research into production-ready models. Minimum Qualifications PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or MS with 5+ years of applied ML research experience Strong deep learning and NLP fundamentals, with hands-on experience training and fine-tuning

- **Id**: 4291963
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-generative-ai-applied-scientist-services-special-projects>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cupertino, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T17:56:04Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T23:55:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
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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**: 94
- **Open postings**: 1125
- **Ghost share**: 0.001
- **Stale share**: 0.036
- **Repost share**: 0.02
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 148
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Contrastive Learning** — Optional: yes
- **DeepSpeed** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **DPO** — Optional: yes
- **FSDP** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **Knowledge Distillation** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **LoRA** — Optional: yes
- **Model Distillation** — Optional: yes
- **PEFT** — Optional: yes
- **QLoRA** — Optional: yes
- **Quantization** — Optional: yes
- **Reranking** — Optional: yes
- **RLHF** — Optional: yes
- **SGLang** — Optional: yes
- **Transformers** — Optional: yes
- **Triton** — Optional: yes
- **vLLM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T23:29:59Z

## 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

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 142
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T01:19:08Z

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