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Apple AIML - ML Research Engineer or Scientist in Cupertino, California
AIML - ML Research Engineer or Scientist
Cupertino,California,United States
Machine Learning and AI
Our team is looking for a roboticist to work with a collaborative team of researchers within Apple’s AIML organization. This team is working to leverage and build upon groundbreaking ML robotics research, thereby enabling development of generalizable and reliable robot systems.
Description
Duties associated with this position include conducting collaborative research on a variety of robotics platforms. A core component of such duties will include development of brand new machine learned control policies such as Video Language Action models, Imitation Learning, Reinforcement Learning. Part of this development will include intelligent data collection and evaluations.
Minimum Qualifications
Ph.D. in computer science, engineering, or relevant degree.
Experience programming innovative ML robot control policies
Experience with generative AI models, e.g. Transformers, LLMs, VLMs, VLAs, diffusion models, etc.
Experience with robotics data collection for training models.
Understanding of modeling and analysis used in robotics - including kinematics, dynamics, motion planning, perception, task planning, and control theory.
Experience working with robot manipulation
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Consistent track record of researching, inventing and/or shipping advanced machine learning models
Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills with ability to work with cross-functional teams.
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
Pay & Benefits
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