Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Responsible AI and Safety - AIML/SWE

Apple

Locations
Cupertino · Seattle
Salary range
USD $195,700 – $356,400 base
Workplace
In office
Level
Manager
Job family
AI Safety
Posted
2 months ago

The T&S Network estimates this role to be M3, Manager. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $170k to $250k at an employer this size. Key skills at this level: owns a detection system end to end, including its drift and its retraining, designs for adversarial pressure rather than for a static distribution, and sets evaluation methodology others in the company adopt.

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Why this level

Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as M3 · asks for 5+ years · posts $196k to $356k base at a company over 5,000.

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The role, in T&S terms

Written by the T&S Network from Apple's posting.

Leads a team of machine learning engineers running the responsible AI lifecycle for Apple's generative AI features: assessing risks, setting safety policy, building mitigations, and monitoring how large language and multimodal models are evaluated, aligned and kept safe. Sits in Apple's Responsible AI group within the Human-Centered Machine Intelligence organization, focused on minimizing unintended consequences for people, systems and society.

What you'd do

  • Lead and grow a team of machine learning engineers on responsible AI work for generative products
  • Analyze evaluation results and run failure investigations before and after launch
  • Define safety policies with leadership, design, engineering, legal and regulatory partners
  • Give senior leadership safety recommendations and clear blockers for the team

What it asks for

  • 5+ years in machine learning, including generative models, NLP or computer vision
  • Proficiency in Python and data science libraries such as Pandas
  • Experience interpreting human and automated evaluation outputs, especially complex multi-labeled data

Worth knowing

  • Leads a team working with sensitive or potentially offensive content

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