Multimodal AI Researcher - Agent & Vision-Language Systems

Apple Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,700 - 324,800; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Santa Clara is seeking an AIML - Machine Learning Researcher to advance multimodal agents with multimodal reasoning, tool use and visual understanding. You will design new architectures, explore training paradigms, and build autonomous task-execution capabilities for Apple devices and cloud services.

The role requires excellent applied ML, CV, multimodal LLM and agent training expertise with strong engineering skills. Base pay is a substantial range and relocation may be considered.

Qualifications

• PhD or MS with relevant experience in ML, CV or NLP
• Experience in building multimodal systems and agents
• Strong software engineering and research skills

Responsibilities

• Design architectures for multimodal foundation models for Apple Intelligence
• Develop agent capabilities for multimodal LLMs including tool use and visual reasoning
• Fine‑tune and evaluate domain-specific foundation models for Apple products
• Conduct applied research to translate academic advances into production‑ready technologies
• Translate product requirements into modeling and engineering tasks

Skills

ML & DL exposure

Multimodal reasoning

Agent training

Data analysis

Education

PhD, MS or equivalent

Tools

Python

Go

Java

C++

Job description

Apple Inc. in Santa Clara is seeking an AIML - Machine Learning Researcher to advance multimodal agents with multimodal reasoning, tool use and visual understanding. You will design new architectures, explore training paradigms, and build autonomous task-execution capabilities for Apple devices and cloud services.

The role requires excellent applied ML, CV, multimodal LLM and agent training expertise with strong engineering skills. Base pay is a substantial range and relocation may be considered.