Staff Applied Research and ML , Responsible AI and Safety
- Locations
- Cupertino · Seattle
- Salary range
- USD $205,400 – $394,000 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Senior / Staff IC
- Job family
- AI Safety
- Posted
- 7 months ago
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P4, Staff. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $270k to $340k 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.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as P4 · posts $205k to $394k base at a company over 5,000.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from Apple's posting.
Applied research on the safety of LLMs and diffusion models in Apple's generative AI products. The work covers red teaming, safeguards for deploying LLMs in Apple products, and tools, metrics and datasets for evaluating model safety across the deployment lifecycle.
What you'd do
- Research and advance red teaming methods for LLMs and diffusion models.
- Research and develop mitigations and safeguards for safe deployment of LLMs in Apple products.
- Develop tools, metrics and datasets for assessing LLM safety over the model deployment lifecycle.
- Build methods and tools to interpret and explain failures in language models.
What it asks for
- PhD or equivalent experience in computer science or a related technical field is helpful.
- Track record in ML research, production deployment, or both.
- Deep understanding of LLMs.
- Working knowledge of deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch.
- Ability to formulate a research problem, design experiments, implement and communicate solutions.
- Publication record in relevant conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR or EMNLP (preferred).
- Prior work on responsible AI and AI safety (preferred).
Terms in this role
- Red teaming.
- Testing a system, often an AI model, by deliberately trying to make it fail or misbehave, so problems are found and fixed first.
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Media and streaming · Marketplaces and commerce · Cupertino, CA · More than 100,000 people · Founded 1976
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