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Apple is hiring a mid-level Research Scientist in the machine learning function based in Paris, France. The posting calls out experience with PyTorch, LLMs, Deep Learning, Machine Learning. Listed education preference: a Ph.D. or equivalent.

Role: Research Scientist
Function: machine learning
Level: mid
Track: Individual contributor
Location: Paris, France
Education: Ph.D. preferred
Department: Machine Learning and AI
Posted: May 15, 2026

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Research Scientist developing machine learning technology focused on LLMs, VLMs, and generative foundation models. Conduct foundational research, publish results, mentor colleagues, and collaborate across Apple teams. Requires PhD in Computer Science or equivalent, strong ML publication record, and hands-on deep learning experience.

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Job description

from Apple careers

Play a part in building the next revolution of machine learning technology. We're looking for a passionate researchers to work on ambitious curiosity driven long-term research projects that will impact the future of Apple, and our products. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to work on innovative foundational research in machine learning focusing on LLMs, VLMs, and more generally generative foundation models, possibly at all steps (pre-training, fine-tuning, steering, efficient inference etc… ). As a member of the team, you will be inspired by a diversity of challenging problems, collaborate with world-class machine learning engineers and researchers to impact the future of Apple products, and publish some of your results in high-quality scientific venues.
You have a strong research background in machine learning or related fields, and regularly publish your results in the main relevant conference and journal venues, and make sure that your research results are reproducible. You will propose your own research plan to advance our understanding of machine learning and execute it through implementation and experimentation, in collaboration with your colleagues. You will provide technical mentorship and guidance, and prepare technical reports for publication and conference talks. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with broader teams across Apple
<h3>Minimum Qualifications</h3>PhD, or equivalent practical experience, in Computer Science, or related technical field
Demonstrated expertise in machine learning research.
Publication record in relevant conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, etc).
Hands-on experience working with deep learning toolkits such as JAX, PyTorch or MLX
<h3>Preferred Qualifications</h3>Strong mathematical skills in linear algebra, optimization and statistics.
Ability to formulate a research problem, design, experiment, implement and communicate solutions.
Ability to work in a diverse collaborative environment.