Natural Language Generative Modeling Research Engineer, Apple
SIML, ISE
$170.7-256.5k
+ RSUs
Office located in Cupertino, CA
Personal technology company
Job no longer available
Personal technology company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$170.7-256.5k
+ RSUs
Office located in Cupertino, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
Apple's mission is to bring the best user experience to its customers through its innovative hardware, software, and services.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for senior research engineers experienced in training, adapting and deploying large scale ML models with a focus on natural language and multimodal understanding and generation
- An ideal candidate will have solid ML fundamentals and ability to turn research contributions into products
- Proven experience in Conversation Understanding and Synthesis, Reinforcement and Human Preference Learning, and Large Language Model Training are essential for this role
- 3 - 5+ years experience in Machine Learning and NLP fundamentals
- Hands on experience training LLMs
- Experience adapting pre-trained LLMs for downstream tasks & human alignment
- Familiarity with distributed training
- Proficiency in using ML toolkits, e.g., PyTorch
- Strong programming skills in Python, C and C++
- You're aware of the challenges associated to the transition of a prototype into a final product
- M.S. or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or a related field ie, mathematics, physics or computer engineering with a focus on computer vision and/or machine learning or comparable professional experience
What the job involves
- You will be inventing and shipping the next generation of core technologies to enable system wide experience!
- The mission of Robustness & Safety AI team is to develop core technologies to ensure safety on Apple’s devices and services. This includes technologies to ensure communication safety for our users as well as to ensure ML models and features built on top of generative AI are robust and safe
- The team comprises of domain experts in NLP, Computer Vision, and ML Fairness who contribute to significant system wide safety experience
- Responsibilities in the role will include training large scale language and multimodal models on distributed backends, deployment of compact neural architectures such as transformers efficiently on device, and learning policies that can be personalized to the user in a privacy preserving manner
- Ensuring quality with an emphasis on fairness and model robustness would constitute an important part of the role
- You will be interacting very closely with a variety of ML researchers, software engineers, hardware & design teams cross functionally
- Our primary responsibilities will center on enriching conversation understanding capabilities through LLM and multimodal models
- The user experience initiative would focus on enriching system safety experience
Our take
With a market capitalisation that reached $3 trillion in 2022, Apple is the world's most valuable company. A vertically integrated approach and obsessive focus on the user experience have helped to make Apple one of the most successful companies in the world.
Since taking over at Apple, Tim Cook has been carefully curating the company's reputation as a champion of consumer privacy, trying to set the company apart from others that monetise their users' data.
The company even went as far as to introduce sweeping privacy changes which made it difficult to tailor ads to Apple’s 1bn+ iPhone users. This rocked the $400bn digital ads market, seriously harming the revenue of its bigger rivals in the lucrative industry and forcing them to rebuild their ad infrastructure.
Despite this, the company has been shaken by supply chain issues and moved a considerable amount of its manufacturing from China to India, and increased its Vietnam presence. This is because of multi-pronged production disruption in China, the second largest customer market for Apple, and triggered an estimated 10% revenue drop in the first quarter of 2023.
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Company benefits
- Everyone has different needs and schedules, and that’s why we offer medical plans that cover both physical and mental healthcare
- In addition, employees have the option to access medical professionals from almost anywhere and get free confidential counselling — virtual or in person
- You could also be eligible for help with fitness-related expenses
- Our medical coverage plans include family-friendly features such as fertility treatments
- Because we know there’s more than one way to bring a new child into your family, we support all kinds of new parents with paid leave and our gradual return-to-work programme
- You also get paid time away if you need to care for an ill family member and free guidance to help you find support for childcare, elderly care, legal referrals and more
- At Apple, we make sure women earn the same as men performing similar work. As part of that effort, your salary history is history — we won’t ask
- Every employee here also has the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder, because all are eligible for stock grants and also a discount when purchasing Apple stock
- To help you prepare for retirement, our pension can help you meet your savings goals. And to help you prepare for the unexpected, you’ll have the security of multiple forms of income protection
- Plan on developing both professionally and personally. Apple University creates classes, seminars and beyond-the-classroom tools that help employees understand Apple’s culture, organisation, values, and role in the world. You can sharpen general business and software skills through online classes
- For more formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, we’ll reimburse you for certain educational expenses, including tuition
- Whether you’re exploring personal pursuits, welcoming a new child or caring for a family member, rest assured that you’ll have paid time away when you need it most
- When you give money to an eligible organisation, we’ll match your donations one-for-one, so your contribution is doubled. And if you choose to donate your time, we’ll contribute US$25 for every hour you volunteer. Whether you donate time or money, Apple will match your contributions up to US$10,000 a year
- Get the world’s best prices on the world’s best products — Apple products. You’ll also get deals on great third-party accessories
- And there are services to help you manage life’s day-to-day tasks: dinner reservations, pet-sitters, shopping, personal travel, financial guidance and more
Company values
- We believe that we’re on the face of the Earth to make great products
- We believe in the simple, not the complex
- We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make
- We participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution
- We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us
- We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot
- We don’t settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self-honesty to admit when we’re wrong and the courage to change
Company HQ
Cupertino, CA
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Leadership
Tim Cook
(CEO, not founder)Joined Apple in 1998 and held various senior roles before being promoted to CEO in 2011. Previously Spent 12 years with IBM, most recently as director of North American Fulfilment, where he led manufacturing and distribution functions for IBM’s Personal Computer Company in North and Latin America
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