Machine Learning Engineer - Visual Agents - Special Projects

Apple • Cupertino, CA

4h

About The Position

The Special Projects team at Apple is developing novel experiences powered by state-of-the-art agentic vision-language models that incorporate visual context into conversational interaction. We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to help us build, fine-tune, and rigorously evaluate these systems. A successful candidate has hands-on experience with vision-language models, knows how to translate ambiguous product requirements into measurable evaluation criteria, and is excited to work at the intersection of multimodal modeling and agentic AI.

Requirements

• BA or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Machine Learning
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building and evaluating generative AI or multimodal models
• Experience working with vision-language models or multimodal systems
• Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (Pytorch or Tensorflow)

Nice To Haves

• PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or other STEM field
• Prior industry internship or research experience applying ML to product use cases
• Experience with video understanding, temporal reasoning, or activity recognition
• Familiarity with agentic system design including tool use, grounding, or perceive-act loops
• Experience building or working with large-scale multimodal data and annotation pipelines
• Proficiency in training, fine-tuning, and evaluation of foundation models and frameworks
• Publications or technical presentations in Machine Learning journals or conferences
• Excellent communication skills and cross functional collaboration

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees