AIML - Machine Learning Researcher, Machine Intelligence Neural Design (MIND)
We are looking for a highly motivated, result-oriented team player with a strong background in ML and hands-on experience in software development to join our team. Our mission is to advance the state-of-art reasoning and optimization techniques for improved accuracy and efficient inference. Thus, the ideal candidate for this position is a researcher and engineer who will relentlessly push the existing boundary with out-of-box thinking and materialize the idea with the very details to impact both Apple partners and research communities.
Description
- Research and applied work in LLM reasoning, planning, tool use, agentic LLMs, and related topics
- Work on the next generation of LLM and VLM architectures and reasoning models
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in tool use, agentic LLMs, RAG
Experience with processing multiple modalities (i.e., audio/vision) with Foundational Models
Experience with efficient inference, HW/SW co-design, performance optimization
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Experience with Jax programming
Understanding ML accelerations and architectures
Minimum Qualifications
Ph.D. in CS or related fields
Quality publications in LLM Reasoning and Planning (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc)
Expert in PyTorch/Python programming
Experience with Large-scale model training/tuning
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