Applied Research Scientist, Proactive Intelligence — Personal and Agentic Search

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Salary

$181K-$318K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

114% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Company stage

Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Applied Research Scientist, Proactive Intelligence — Personal and Agentic Search Cupertino, United States of America AI represents a big opportunity to elevate Apple's products and experiences for billions of people globally. We are looking for Applied Research Scientists with a background and interest in Agentic Systems. You will be leveraging state-of-the-art Generative models to ship extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences for the iPhone, Mac, Apple Watch, iPad and more. The mission of Proactive Intelligence is to improve Apple platforms by better understanding, anticipating and adapting to user behavior by using machine learning to build phenomenal features that are built right into Apple platforms. Our team provides an opportunity to be part of an incredible research and engineering organization within Apple. The ideal candidate will have industry experience across a range of modeling problems relevant to LLM-powered search and agentic systems, including Training and Fine-Tuning Large Language Models (LLMs), Learning from Human Preferences, LLM-based Evaluation and Judging, Retrieval and Planning, and Causal Analysis of Model Failures. Working knowledge of large-scale data processing especially with structured data, probabilistic modeling and statistics will broaden your role and effectiveness in this position. This role contributes directly to Personal Search and Agentic Search inside Siri - the capabilities that let users reason over their own data and act on it through natural conversation. As an Applied Research Scientist on our team, you will design and implement ML algorithms that process data in different Apple products. You will train and fine-tune generative models and agentic

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