Sales - AI Architect, LLM & Gen AI

Job Description

Summary

Posted: Mar 17, 2025 Weekly Hours: 40 Role Number: 200593110 Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there’s no telling what you could accomplish! Why Apple? At Apple, we believe our products begin with our people. By hiring a diverse team we drive creative thought. By giving that team everything they need we drive innovation. By hiring incredible engineers we drive precision. And through our collaborative process we build memorable experiences for our customers! We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced AI Architect who has a robust understanding of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Generative AI to help work on exciting technologies for future Apple products and bring it to live. You will collaborate with multi-functional teams of business SMEs, engineers, data scientists, designers, and researchers. This role is exceptionally technical, and will require you to actively engage in all aspects of the work, you will be responsible for running 1000 steps ahead, looking around the corner, and help bridge the gap between business and technical teams, ensuring that the technical architecture and solutions aligned with strategic goals and deliver measurable business values and KPIs.

Description

Description In this role, you will focus on the following key areas: - You’ll be working in a team of machine learning engineers of different specializations to prototype and ship world class algorithms that are state of the art. - Lead the exploration and application of Large Language Models and Generative AI, venturing into new areas within these fields, including multi modal capabilities. - Lead MLOps, automating ML pipeline, including the training, testing, deployment, monitoring, and scaling of AI models. - Turn prototypes into automation pipelines and deploying them to production; deciding when to use out-of-the-box solutions vs. building custom solutions and utilizing both. - Ongoing data analysis to build new or fine-tune existing models such as GPT to optimize results. - Partner closely with software engineers to implement these models into high-performing systems and models in our production environment that can be applied to create amazing experience for our worldwide audience. - Actively engaging in all aspects of model development, from ideation and experimentation to deployment. - Communicate results of analyses to business partners and executives. - Maintain expertise in the latest advancements in AI technology. Partnering with your team members to prepare presentations, papers, and patents for your inventions.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning or related field; or
• M.S. in related field with 3+ years experience applying machine learning engineer to real business problems.
• Experience in identifying and delivering state-of-the-art product architecture for our end to end solutions.
• 5+ years building NLP/AI software professionally and successfully releasing to customers.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in building scalable systems for training & evaluating of machine learning/deep learning models.
• Experience with state-of-the-art NLP algorithms and AI models, Multi-modal LLMs, Multi-modal contrastive learning, Foundation models, Diffusion based models and parameter efficient fine tuning of LLMs.
• Experience with Cloud technologies and familiarity with AWS & GCP.

Key Qualifications

Key Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with deploying model for large scale inferencing & optimizations.
• Solid understanding of inference speed up techniques such as speculative decoding and optimization of LLMs for human preferences.
• A strong track record of shipping products and publications / patents.
• Proactively address and reduce potential biases in model predictions, ensuring our products are inclusive and fair.
• Design and implement efficient data pipelines to support large language model training and inference.
• Strong proficiency in PyTorch, TensorFlow, Transformers, Kubernetes, Docker, LangChain, vectorDB and cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, and Monitoring tool like Grafana, and CI/CD like airflow, gitlab, and Big Data management like Spark, Kafka.
• A thought leader having a good balance of business insight, domain and technical expertise.
• Excellent presentation, written and verbal communication, engagement and interpersonal skills along with validated skills in building great design.

Education & Experience

Education & Experience

Additional Requirements

Additional Requirements More