ML Engineer Multimodal Sensing - Incubation

Cupertino, California, United States
Hardware

Summary

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Role Number:200584290
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring curiosity, passion, and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish! Our Camera Incubation team is a multi-disciplinary team responsible for looking down the road and prototyping new experiences, architectures and technologies. We collaborate with design and product teams to bring new features across the Apple product line. Join us to explore together exciting new concept prototypes and see them realized in action!

Description

We are looking for a creative prototyping engineer with excellent practical knowledge of deep learning, ML tools and architectures, and multi-modal sensing applied to physical spaces. The successful candidate will have experience with sensing architectures, acquisition and fusion of multimodal signals in particular using state-of-the-art AI technologies applicable to mobile, wearable, and robotic systems. A design-centric prototyping mindset, and the ability to rapidly adjust to changes in investigation directions based on insights acquired from experimental data, are essential advantages. The candidate needs to be able to clearly articulate what motivates a particular approach, and its pros and cons as well as risks.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 5+ years of proven experience in AIML and a Ph. D./M.Sc.) in AI/ML, Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or similar field.
  • Strong background in Computer Vision and Machine Learning, and multimodal sensor fusion, using generative AI principles and architectures
  • Comfortable with using state-of-the-art Transformers, and Spiking networks (SNNs)
  • Experience developing data-driven, deep learning solutions for multimodal perception problems
  • Strong Python programming skills, with proficiency in ML tools/frameworks such as PyTorch
  • Self-motivated, creative innovator with a passion for exploring new technologies
  • Ability to adopt or implement established methodologies and apply statistical analysis in problem-solving

Key Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with asynchronous sensing systems
  • Experience with near-sensor computation
  • Understanding of physical characteristics of imaging and sensing systems
  • Knowledge of robot operating system (ROS) suite, and familiarity with robot-specific sensing and interaction problem space
  • Experienced in an iterative prototyping environment
  • Thrives in a multi-functional work environment and is effective communicating across different teams

Education & Experience

Additional Requirements

Pay & Benefits

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