Apple is looking to build foundation models with fundamental general capabilities such as understanding and generation of text, images, speech, videos, and other modalities and apply these models to Apple products. The company aims to tackle challenging problems in foundation models and deep learning, including natural language processing, multi-modal understanding, and combining learning with knowledge.
Requirements
- Proven track record in training or deployment of large models or building large-scale distributed systems.
- Proficient programming skills in Python and one of the deep learning toolkits such as JAX, PyTorch, or Tensorflow.
- Web-scale information retrieval
- Human-like conversation agent
- Multi-modal perception for existing products and future hardware platforms
- On-device intelligence and learning with strong privacy protections
Responsibilities
- building infrastructure, datasets, and models with fundamental general capabilities such as understanding and generation of text, images, speech, videos, and other modalities
- apply these models to Apple products
- tackle some of the most challenging problems in foundation models and deep learning, including natural language processing, multi-modal understanding, and combining learning with knowledge
- building systems that push the frontier of deep learning in terms of scaling, efficiency, and flexibility
- identify and develop novel applications of deep learning in Apple products
- improve the experience of millions of users
- improve the experience of billions of users
Other
- Ability to work in a collaborative environment.
- passionate about building systems
- PhD, or equivalent practical experience, in Computer Science, or related technical field.
