PhD Intern, Machine Learning: MSI, Product Operations Team

Role overview

PhD Intern, Machine Learning: MSI, Product Operations Team at Apple

This position involves a wide variety of skills, innovation, and is a rare opportunity to be working on groundbreaking, new applications of machine learning, research, and implementation.

Responsibilities

• 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

Required qualifications

• Minimum qualification: 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

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Preferred qualification: 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

Employment details

• Location: Bengaluru [India]

Application details

• Apply and extend LLMs, VLMs, and World Models to advance domain adaptation for manufacturing

About the employer

• At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly.
• We're looking for ML researchers to help us revolutionize how we manufacture Apple's amazing products.
• Domain adaptation here is broad — spanning modalities including text, images, and video, such as generating physics-consistent videos adapted to Apple manufacturing
• Collaborate within Apple to apply solutions to industrial problems

Additional role details

• Imagine what you could do here.
• Every single day, people do amazing things at Apple.
• Ultimately, your work would have a huge impact on billions of users across the globe.
• You can help inspire change, by using your skills to influence globally recognized products' manufacturing.
• The goal of Apple's Manufacturing and Operations team is to take a vision of a product and turn it into a reality.
• Through the use of statistics, the scientific process, and machine learning, the team recommends and implements solutions to the most challenging problems.
• Put your skill & passion to work in this highly visible role.
• Research, build & adapt ML approaches for domain adaptation of multimodal foundation models to Apple manufacturing.
• 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
• Conduct presentations of analyses and results to a wide range of audiences including executives