# Senior Applied Researcher

Apple Services Engineering (ASE) builds experiences that touch hundreds of millions of customers every day. From personalized recommendations to proactive intelligence and large-scale commerce systems, we are transforming how users discover, engage, and transact across the Apple ecosystem. The ASE AI/ML organization sits at the nexus of these systems-where deep applied research, advanced machine learning, and large language models converge to drive high-impact innovation at unprecedented scale. Description We are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with demonstrated expertise in Generative AI, LLM architectures, and advanced NLP systems. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who has taken novel ideas from research inception to production deployment, and who thrives in environments where ambiguity, scale, and cutting-edge innovation intersect. Here, you won’t just push the boundaries of what’s possible today-you’ll define what’s next. What Sets This Role Apart This is not a narrow modeling position. You will influence and implement foundational intelligence capabilities across Apple Services-spanning language understanding, behavioral inference, discovery, and gr

- **Id**: 3883013
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-senior-applied-researcher>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-15T17:17:01Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T22:13:46Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 56
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3018
- **Description truncated**: no
- **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**: 93
- **Open postings**: 358
- **Ghost share**: 0.008
- **Stale share**: 0.022
- **Repost share**: 0.064
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 122
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: no
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: no
- **bandit** — Optional: yes
- **Embeddings** — Optional: yes
- **Hallucination** — Optional: yes
- **Knowledge Distillation** — Optional: yes
- **Model Distillation** — Optional: yes
- **Quantization** — Optional: yes
- **RAG** — Optional: yes
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: yes
- **RLHF** — Optional: yes
- **Semantic Search** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 56

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T18:41:53Z

## 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**: 71
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.991
- **P room**: 0.72
- **Age days**: 55
- **Expected fill days**: 122
- **Reasons**: conf:0, urgency, velocity, win:mid, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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