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AI Engineer - Multimodal Intelligence

Apple, Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 6/6/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/6/2026
Are you excited about the amazing potential of foundation models, LLMs, and multimodal LLMs? We are looking for individuals who thrive on collaboration and have a desire to push the boundaries of what is possible today! The VCV org is a centralized applied research and engineering organization responsible for developing real-time on-device Computer Vision and Machine Perception technologies across Apple products. In the Human Intelligence team, we balance research and product to deliver Apple quality, pioneering experiences, innovating through the full stack, and partnering with HW, SW, and ML teams to influence the sensor and silicon roadmap that brings our vision to life.\\n\\nJoin us in this truly exciting era of Artificial Intelligence to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple products & experiences! We are continuously advancing the state of the art in Computer Vision and Machine Learning, touching all aspects of multimodal LLMs, from data collection, data curation to modeling, evaluation and deployment. As a member of our dynamic group, you will have the unique and rewarding opportunity to craft upcoming research directions in the field of multimodal LLMs that will inspire future Apple products.

We are seeking highly motivated and skilled engineers to join our Human Intelligence team. The ideal candidates will have strong backgrounds in developing and exploring capabilities of foundation models and agentic AI systems that enable natural, proactive and personalized human interactions. You will be responsible for multimodal LLM development including training, fine-tuning, agentic AI, and reasoning systems.\n\nIn this role, you will work on cutting-edge research and engineering problems, collaborating across teams and help shape the technical direction of multimodal and agentic AI systems from research to production. You will lead and contribute to the research roadmap for multimodal foundation models, identifying key opportunities for innovation in agentic AI and reasoning capabilities. You will design and implement agentic systems, and large-scale simulation and evaluation frameworks that can transition from research prototypes to production-grade technologies.

Master's or equivalent practical experience, in Computer Science, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or related technical field.\n3 years of relevant academic or industry experience in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, or Artificial Intelligence.\nExperience in deep learning with demonstrated work in multimodal systems (e.g. vision, language, video, etc.).\nProficiency in Python and in a modern deep learning framework such as PyTorch or JAX.\nExperience with foundation models (language or multimodal), including training, fine-tuning, and deployment.\nExperience developing, training, and fine-tuning multimodal LLMs.\nStrong foundations in optimization, probability, and linear algebra as applied to machine learning and computer vision.

PhD, or equivalent practical experience, in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, or a related technical field with a focus on AI, machine learning, or computer vision.\nDemonstrated expertise in developing, training, and fine-tuning multimodal LLMs at scale and developing industry scale agentic products.\nProven track record of technical leadership, including architecting complex ML systems and leading projects from conception to product deployment.\nExperience applying foundation models to build autonomous or semi-autonomous agents, including planning, task decomposition, and multi-step reasoning.\nStrong publication record in top-tier venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, COLM, etc.\nExperience with large-scale distributed training and model parallelism.\nStrong communication skills and ability to present research findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.

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