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PhD Intern, Machine Learning: MSI, Product Operations Team

Apple· Operations and Supply Chain
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About the role

PhD Intern position focused on applying machine learning to manufacturing at Apple. Involves research, development, and deployment of ML methods for domain adaptation of multimodal foundation models to Apple manufacturing, multimodal reasoning, and application to industrial problems. Presents findings to executives and collaborators.

Responsibilities

  • Research, build & adapt ML approaches for domain adaptation of multimodal foundation models to Apple manufacturing. Domain adaptation here is broad — spanning modalities including text, images, and video, such as generating physics-consistent videos adapted to Apple manufacturing
  • Develop techniques that steer large foundation models without modifying their weights, and multimodal knowledge-graph reasoning — domain-specific Q&A, multi-hop reasoning, disambiguation, and tool/retrieval orchestration over manufacturing knowledge
  • Train, evaluate, and analyze model performance (e.g., exact-match/F1 accuracy, explanation quality, and generation fidelity) on public benchmarks and on internal datasets where applicable
  • Apply and extend LLMs, VLMs, and World Models to advance domain adaptation for manufacturing
  • Collaborate within Apple to apply solutions to industrial problems
  • Conduct presentations of analyses and results to a wide range of audiences including executives

Qualifications

  • Pursuing PhD in Computer Science / related field
  • Deep understanding of Machine Learning concepts, Probability and Statistics
  • Understanding of Computer Vision & VLMs, with demonstrated skill in training models and applying them to ML application development
  • Ability to prototype research ideas as working code (Python)
  • Ability to meaningfully present results of analysis in a clear and impactful manner
  • Familiarity with applying Machine Learning, especially Computer Vision in a Manufacturing / Assembly setting
  • Familiarity with multimodal understanding & reasoning, knowledge-graphs & generative video models
  • Prior publications in relevant field

Skills

Required:Machine Learning fundamentalsComputer VisionMultimodal understanding & reasoningPythonCommunication
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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