Machine Learning Engineer for Computer Vision Full-time

Summary
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, we believe new ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there’s no telling what you could accomplish. Do you want to impact the future of Manufacturing here at Apple through cutting edge ML techniques? 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. 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’ supply chain.

Apple’s Manufacturing & Operations team is looking for an extraordinary Machine Learning Engineer with expertise in Computer Vision (CV) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to join our team. You will craft, design and implement our machine learning strategy to the massive iPhone, Mac, iPad supply chains and help build the future of our manufacturing systems. In this role, you will develop and deploy machine learning models to optimize processes, automate quality control, and improve operational efficiency. The role requires a candidate with practical experience fine-tuning LLMs and applying them in combination with CV techniques to tackle challenges in manufacturing environments.

Description
As a key member of our team, you’ll collaborate with different engineering and operations teams leading development of ML solutions for a variety of vision and language-based tasks and projects. You will be responsible for delivering ML technologies aligned with the fast pace new technology and short product lifecycle, while ensuring the highest standards of product quality and reliability. In this role, you’ll be embedded inside a vibrant team of machine learning engineers and data scientists. You’ll be expected to help conceive, code, and deploy machine learning models at scale using the latest industry tools. Important skills include data wrangling, feature engineering, developing models, and testing metric. You will have the opportunity to work both independently and collaboratively to help partner teams meet predefined objectives. If you are passionate to influence the quality, speed and efficiency of our ML algorithms, come and help enable our vision to create the most refined products in the world.

Join our team as a key contributor, leading the development of machine learning solutions for diverse tasks and projects. Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to deliver cutting-edge ML technologies, ensuring top-tier product quality and reliability in a fast-paced environment.

– Develop and deploy scalable Computer Vision and Machine Learning algorithms on local and cloud-based inferencing platforms.

– Perform rapid prototyping to design algorithms for challenging real world manufacturing problems in the domain of Intelligent Visual Inspection.

– Leverage Large Language Models to automate document analysis, knowledge extraction, and process optimization within manufacturing workflow.

– Fine-tune LLMs for domain-specific applications such as improving operational documentation, production reports, and automating technical analysis.

– Work with resources in cross-functional teams and the factory to integrate ML applications.

– Abilities to independently learn new technologies; prioritize tasks and take ownership; and meaningfully present results of analyses in a clear and impactful manner.