Machine Learning Research Engineer - Pretraining Data Foundation Models
Apple· Cupertino, California, United States
Posted October 25, 2026
- Experience
- Not specified
- Pay
- Not disclosed
- Education
- Not specified
- Location
- Cupertino, California, United States
- Work mode
- On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
About this role
Apple builds foundational AI models and generative features. This role focuses on researching and engineering pretraining data pipelines and architectures for foundation models.
What you will do
- Design and optimize pretraining data pipelines for foundation models
- Curate and filter large-scale multi-modal datasets
- Collaborate with research teams on model training efficiency
- Scale data processing infrastructure
What the employer expects
- Experience with foundation model pretraining and data curation
- Strong Python and PyTorch programming skills
- Understanding of large-scale distributed training
- Experience with data quality and filtering techniques
Skills
- Machine Learning
- Foundation Models
- Data Pretraining
- Python
- PyTorch
- Distributed Training
- NLP
- Deep Learning
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