On-device impact, real-world vision quality is at the core of this role. Apple is building and improving computer vision and vision-language models (VLMs) that support object understanding and recognition on Apple devices, with an emphasis on robustness across real data, meaningful evaluations, and efficient models designed for device constraints.
Location: Cupertino, CA (onsite)
Compensation: USD 150,400 - 277,600 per year
What you’ll do
- Design, train, and improve computer vision and VLM models for object understanding and recognition.
- Increase robustness to real-world conditions and address failure modes using results from real data, with performance across devices.
- Define evaluations that reflect product quality, and use those evaluations to guide model decisions.
- Develop models that meet on-device constraints including memory, latency, and power.
Core qualifications
- Ph.D. or Master’s in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer Vision or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
- Strong foundations in computer vision and deep learning.
- Proven ability to deliver end-to-end projects across data, training, and evaluation on real-world visual datasets.
- Proficiency in Python and PyTorch (or an equivalent deep learning framework).
- Proficiency in using generative coding tools.
- Rigorous experimentation skills, including clear baselines, ablations, and meaningful evaluation sets.
Preferred qualifications
- Publications in top computer vision or machine learning venues (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR), ideally with released code or work transferred to a product.
- Experience in representation learning (such as self-supervised learning, metric learning, retrieval, or recognition).
- Experience applying machine learning in an industry or product setting.
- Experience with knowledge distillation or model compression.
- Familiarity with vision-language models.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- Retirement benefits
- Discounted products and free services
- Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition
- Discretionary bonuses or commission payments, and relocation
Pay & equity details
At Apple, base pay is one part of the total compensation package and is determined within a range. The base pay range for this role is between $150,400 and $277,600, and base pay depends on skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Apple employees may also participate in discretionary employee stock programs, including the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder. Employees may be eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if they voluntarily participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
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Technologies: Python, PyTorch
