AI Research Scientist: Multimodal Foundation Models - Architecture, Pre-Training & Distillation
Core
Designing, pre-training, and distilling multimodal foundation models for on-device deployment across the Apple ecosystem.
Role type
Senior IC research scientist (multimodal foundation models)
Builds
Frontier multimodal models and efficient distilled models for Apple silicon
Domain
AI research, multimodal learning, on-device intelligence
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
large-scale LLM pre-training, model architecture design, deep learning frameworks (PyTorch/JAX), distributed training, transformer architectures, evaluation of multimodal capabilities
Preferred skills
leading architecture experiments, knowledge distillation (offline/on-policy/self), teacher-student training pipelines, multimodal model development, hardware-software co-design, publication record
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