Senior Applied Researcher

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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)

$111,944 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+13.7% - Much faster than average

123% above the BLS role benchmark for data and ml aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Data and ML aggregate by role bucket.

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

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Data From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Senior From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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

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About this role

Senior Applied Researcher San Francisco, United States of America Apple Services Engineering (ASE) builds experiences that touch hundreds of millions of customers every day. From personalized recommendations to proactive intelligence and large-scale commerce systems, we are transforming how users discover, engage, and transact across the Apple ecosystem. The ASE AI/ML organization sits at the nexus of these systems-where deep applied research, advanced machine learning, and large language models converge to drive high-impact innovation at unprecedented scale. We are seeking a Senior Applied Researcher with demonstrated expertise in Generative AI, LLM architectures, and advanced NLP systems. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who has taken novel ideas from research inception to production deployment, and who thrives in environments where ambiguity, scale, and cutting-edge innovation intersect. Here, you won't just push the boundaries of what's possible today-you'll define what's next. What Sets This Role Apart This is not a narrow modeling position. You will influence and implement foundational intelligence capabilities across Apple Services-spanning language understanding, behavioral inference, discovery, and growth optimization-while operating with the autonomy and scope expected of senior technical leadership at Apple. Architect, design, and deploy LLM-powered systems that unlock new capabilities for personalization, intelligent automation, and customer understanding across Apple's services ecosystem. Lead research in areas such as large-scale representation learning, semantic modeling, topic induction, natural language understanding, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Develop and evolve taxonomies, embeddings, and model architectures capable of disentangling complex user or content behaviors in high-dimensional, unstructured data. Drive LLM fine-tuning, evaluation,

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