CareerPlan

Machine Learning Engineer, Data for Foundation Models

Seattle, United States of AmericaFull-time2026-10-14 → 2026-11-10

Core

Building high-quality datasets for foundation model training to improve diffusion and auto-regressive models for Apple products like Genmoji and Image Playground.

Role type

Senior IC machine learning research engineer (data for foundation models)

Builds

Web-scale datasets, distributed training pipelines, application-specific adapters, and on-device optimizations for generative AI.

Domain

Generative AI, Foundation Models, Image/Video Understanding

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

dataset construction, data annotation, data enrichment, synthetic data generation, diffusion model training, auto-regressive model training, data ablation experiments, PyTorch, JAX, Hadoop, Ray

Preferred skills

improving diffusion image generation model quality via training data, strong industrial research output, shipped complex projects, top-tier venue publications