# Staff ML/Research Engineer, Reinforcement Learning – Apple Cloud AI

Apple Cloud AI is at the forefront of ML and generative AI, where data and models come together to enable the next generation of intelligent experiences on Apple products and services. We build scalable reinforcement learning (RL) and post-training services and frameworks that accelerate the development of real-world AI applications, designed with both usability and efficiency in mind. Our platform covers the full model development lifecycle, from the first experiment to large-scale reinforcement learning, preference optimization, and agentic post-training on thousands of GPUs and TPUs. Our team applies the latest RL research to production systems, with user experience and accelerator efficiency in mind. You'll play a key role in shaping AI research at Apple and how its models are aligned, optimized, and scaled. We're looking for engineers and researchers who are passionate about research and building a high-performance RL stack that supports diverse real-world use cases. You'll have the autonomy to experiment, the scale to make an impact, and the support to take ideas from prototype to production. You'll work alongside a world-class team to build RL systems that make ML developmen

- **Id**: 4291974
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-staff-mlresearch-engineer-reinforcement-learning-apple-cloud-ai>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Seattle, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-21T23:41:54Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T23:55:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 23
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4102
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Operating Systems, 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

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **DPO** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **GRPO** — Optional: no
- **JAX** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Megatron-LM** — Optional: no
- **NVIDIA NeMo** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **PPO** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **RLHF** — Optional: no
- **SFT** — Optional: no
- **TPU** — Optional: no
- **TRL** — Optional: no
- **InfiniBand** — Optional: yes
- **NCCL** — Optional: yes
- **NVLink** — Optional: yes
- **Reward Modeling** — Optional: yes
- **SGLang** — Optional: yes
- **Transformers** — Optional: yes
- **vLLM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 23

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## 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**: 23
- **Expected fill days**: 142
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T00:45:34Z

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