Job Details

Role Number: 200630837-0836

Summary

Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Combining groundbreaking machine learning research with next-generation hardware, our teams take user experiences to the next level.

Description

Apple’s AIML Residency is a year-long program inviting experts in various fields to apply their own domain expertise to innovate and build revolutionary machine learning and AI-based products and experiences. As AI-based solutions spread across fields, the need for domain experts to understand machine learning and apply their expertise in ML settings grows.

Residents will have the opportunity to attend ML and AI courses, learn from an Apple mentor closely involved in their program, collaborate with fellow residents, gain hands-on experience working on high-impact projects, publish in premier academic conferences, and partner with Apple teams across hardware, software, and services.

As part of Siri Agent Modeling team, Residents will be doing high-quality research on post-training multi-modal large language models using SFT and RL techniques (eg. using GRPO, etc.) to enable rich agentic experiences on Apple devices. A few sample work streams include - reinforcement learning for general tool-use, building/enhancing planning & reasoning capabilities in LLMs, building/enhancing multimodal large language models for computer use. Residents will also have the flexibility to build product prototypes using the models we develop.

Minimum Qualifications

• Proficiency in a programming language such as Python, Objective-C, C++, Swift, and/or R. Candidates should have experience completing a moderate-sized software project

• Demonstrated ability to connect and collaborate with others

• Graduate degree in a STEM field or equivalent industry experience in software engineering

• Apple’s AIML residency is a one-year program starting in July 2026. Residents must be available to work full-time (40 hours/week) July 13, 2026 - July 9, 2027. Additionally, applicants who are currently enrolled in a degree program must graduate before this program commences on July 13, 2026

Preferred Qualifications

• Ideal candidates will also have academic, research, or industry experience in one of the following: Computer vision, Large Language Models / Generative AI, Machine Learning & ML Research, Natural Language Processing/Speech/Conversational AI, Robotics, Reinforcement Learning, or Multimodal Large Language Models. Thesis, capstone project, internship, co-op, and/or proven experience in these fields qualifies

• We encourage you to submit a cover letter as part of your application explaining: What are your research interests? How do they apply to the specific Residency position you applied to? Why would you would like to join the AIML residency program broadly?

• APPLICATION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 15, 2025

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