PhD Intern, Machine Learning: MSI, Product Operations Team
Core
Research and implement machine learning solutions to revolutionize Apple product manufacturing, focusing on domain adaptation of multimodal foundation models.
Role type
PhD Intern, Machine Learning Researcher
Builds
Physics-consistent videos, multimodal knowledge-graph reasoning systems, and domain-adapted foundation models for manufacturing
Domain
Manufacturing / Industrial Operations + Machine Learning
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Machine Learning, Probability and Statistics, Computer Vision, VLMs, Python prototyping, Multimodal understanding, Knowledge-graph reasoning, Generative video models
Preferred skills
Manufacturing/Assembly setting experience, Multi-hop reasoning, Tool/retrieval orchestration, Prior publications in ML
Technologies
LLMs, VLMs, World Models, Python
Responsibilities
Research and adapt ML approaches for domain adaptation of multimodal foundation models; Develop techniques to steer large foundation models without weight modification; Train, evaluate, and analyze model performance; Apply and extend LLMs, VLMs, and World Models to manufacturing problems; Collaborate to apply solutions to industrial problems; Conduct presentations of analyses and results to executives
