Multimodal ML Engineer

Cupertino,California,United States

Hardware

The Health Sensing team builds outstanding technologies to support our users in living their healthiest, happiest lives by providing them with objective, accurate, and timely information about their health and well-being. As part of the larger Sensor SW & Prototyping team, we take a multimodal approach, using a variety of sensors across HW platforms, such as camera, PPG, and natural languages.

**Description**

In this role, you will be at the forefront of inventing AI/ML algorithms with real-world applications and ensuring the efficient evaluation of these models to be in production at scale. You will be interacting closely with a variety of ML researchers, software engineers, hardware and designers. You will address open-ended business objectives, from the ML problem and navigate through ambiguities to focus on technology development. You will be delivering solutions on time and with high quality standing up to the standards considering a customer facing product. Responsibilities: Research, develop and improve multimodal capabilities (e.g. vision-language). Examples include, but not limited to, aligning language guidance to the space of visual perception, aligning image recommendations to the space of conversation understanding and behavioral modeling Adapt pre-trained models for downstream tasks; building evals for new modal capabilities Work across the entire ML development cycle, from setting up data collection pipelines to model evaluation Analyzing model behavior and finding weaknesses; drive design decisions with in-depth failure analysis Team up with algorithm engineers to build end-to-end pipelines that prioritize rapid iterations in support for reliability of a complex multi-year project Work cross-functionally to bring algorithms to real-world applications; this can span a wide range of teamworks with designers, clinical authorities, engineering specialists across HW and SW

**Minimum Qualifications**

**Key Qualifications**

Expertise in multimodal ML

Deep understanding in one of the following domains: computer vision, NLP, LLM, generative models

Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow

Familiar with software development standard methods/collaborations

Sufficient SW skills to keep large ML training jobs going efficiently on a distributed backend with large volume of data (e.g. image, video)

Excellent interpersonal skills; comfortable in a collaborative and ground breaking research environments

**Preferred Qualifications**

**Education & Experience**

BS and a minimum of 3 years relevant industry experience

**Additional Requirements**

**Pay & Benefits**

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $138,900 and $256,500, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apples discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apples Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Youll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.Learn more (https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html) about Apple Benefits.Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

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