AI Research Scientist: Multimodal Foundation Models - Architecture, Pre-Training & Distillation

The Multimodal Intelligence Team is building the next generation of foundation models for Apple experiences. We are looking for a research scientist to advance the architectures, pre-training methods, and distillation techniques that make highly capable multimodal models practical across the Apple ecosystem. Our research spans the full foundation-model lifecycle: model architecture, pre-training objectives, data mixtures, optimization, scaling, distillation, and evaluation.

A defining challenge of our work is to develop models that combine broad intelligence with the memory, latency, energy, and privacy requirements of on-device deployment. You will have the opportunity to shape new research directions, conduct ambitious experiments at scale, and translate successful ideas into foundation-model technologies that can reach Apple products. Where appropriate, this work may also lead to publications and the open sourcing of selected models, research artifacts, evaluations, or tools.