Apple

Machine Learning Ph.D Student - Agentic AI

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15 days ago
Herẕliyya, IsraelEntry Level

Responsibilities

  • Design and build agentic systems with multi-agent coordination, long-horizon reasoning, tool use, and planning frameworks.
  • Develop domain-specific agents and high-performance retrieval pipelines across diverse data sources.
  • Translate chip design customer workflows and domain knowledge into agent assignments, prompts, tools, and guidelines.
  • Define evaluation measures, curate offline golden sets, and instrument online telemetry for agent feedback loops and quality control.
  • Drive prompt engineering, model selection, and lightweight model adaptation as needed.
  • Collaborate with software engineers to productionize systems and with researchers and customers to shape future products.
  • Monitor developments in agentic AI and LLMs and apply promising techniques with sound engineering judgment.

Requirements

  • MSc or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and experience with modern machine learning and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
  • Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks, tool use, and data pipelines.
  • Ability to design golden sets, metrics, and telemetry for iterative evaluation.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills for working with subject-matter experts.
  • Preferred experience with stateful, multi-turn agentic frameworks and complex execution flows.
  • Preferred experience with prompt engineering, optimization, model adaptation, fine-tuning, distillation, or preference optimization.
  • Preferred publications at top-tier venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, or EMNLP.
  • Familiarity with chip design or EDA environments is preferred.

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About Apple

10,000+ employees

Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and services for consumers and professionals worldwide, including iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods, plus platforms like iOS/macOS and services such as the App Store, iCloud, Music, and TV+. Its business combines device sales with services and subscriptions and in-house silicon design. Founded in 1976, Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, and trades on NASDAQ as AAPL.

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