[Skip to main content](#main-content) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) [Hiring report](/reports/hiring/) · [All Apple jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/apple/) · [Search jobs](/search/) Apple # AIML - Machine Learning Research Lead, RL Agents, MLR Cupertino, United States of America Manager or lead Data & Analytics Listed on Apple’s official careers site. Posted September 9, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there. [Apply on Apple’s careers site →](https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200674615/aiml-machine-learning-research-lead-rl-agents-mlr) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [Apple](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/apple/) / AIML - Machine Learning Research Lead, RL Agents, MLR ## Job description We are looking for a hands-on research lead to drive our work on reinforcement learning and post-training for agentic AI, and to manage a small team of senior researchers working on related problems in RL, agentic tool-calling, synthetic environment generation, model scaling, and multimodal action models. You will help set direction for how we develop infrastructure, training, runtime and evaluation procedures for interactive agents — tool calling, coding, computer use, and long-horizon tasks. This role sits inside a research organization pursuing first-principles approaches to core AI problems: generative foundation models across modalities (text, images, graphs, scientific and engineering data), vision-language modeling and implicit world modeling, self-supervised learning, and search and evolutionary methods for optimizing both agents and the environments they learn in. A distinctive part of our agenda is designing methods that fit Apple's deployment reality — on-device and hybrid (device plus private cloud) execution, co-designed with current and future hardware — and that take advantage of what this ecosystem uniquely enables, such as deeply personalized, long-context agentic experiences. We aim for both field-changing research and direct impact on Apple products and internal engineering processes. MLR is a research group first. Management here is about spreading the load of running a team, not stepping away from the work — everyone, including leads, stays hands-on. ### We support continued engagement with the academic community publishing, conference service, student collaboration, and internships. ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Sep 9, 2026 - First seen by OpenNash: Oct 11, 2026 - Last checked: Oct 18, 2026 - Listed for: 39 days - Location: Cupertino, United States of America[Apply on Apple’s careers site →](https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200674615/aiml-machine-learning-research-lead-rl-agents-mlr) ## More jobs at Apple ### [AI Data & Infrastructure Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/apple/jobs/cd25d0b696f5bfabf9ab/) Cupertino, United States of America ### [AI Data & Knowledge Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/apple/jobs/dfde219985e33617bdb9/) Cupertino, United States of America ### [AI Data Platform Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/apple/jobs/a74cb1ecb4fbea968a1d/) Cupertino, United States of America ### [AI/ML - Machine Learning Engineer, Text Language Identification](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/apple/jobs/5e6432f121d1a36c5dd0/) Cupertino, United States of America ### [AI/ML Engineer: System RF Data Ecosystem](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/apple/jobs/6287b15053e4aed5093a/) Cupertino, United States of America ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [Research Intern - Machine Learning for Biology and Healthcare](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/microsoft/jobs/726db5a4d5e1cfbdd4bb/) Microsoft · United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge ### [Research Intern - Machine Learning and Statistics](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/microsoft/jobs/6d9f9818afff6249a01a/) Microsoft · United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Washington, Redmond ### [Senior Staff Engineer, Machine Learning Engineering ( On-device Learning SW)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/qualcomm/jobs/d561df305202050c72d5/) Qualcomm · San Diego, California, United States of America ### [Senior Machine Learning Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/cvs-health/jobs/6997911d5e1c02b976f9/) CVS Health · New York, NY ### [A/AI Machine Learning Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/lockheed-martin/jobs/653cd776436867ec18c7/) Lockheed Martin · Manassas, VA OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. Dates come from the employer where stated; “first seen” and “last checked” are our own observations. OpenNash Jobs · Official listings with dates and links to the employer. [Weekly hiring report](/reports/hiring/) · [Methodology](/methodology/)