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Senior Multimodal LLM Researcher: Post-Training & RL Lead

Apple Oakbrook

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior ML Researcher focused on foundation model post-training, including Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning (RL). You will explore instruction following, tool use and reasoning to ship real-world capabilities for millions of creators within Apple's human-centered design framework. You will collaborate with research scientists, engineers, and product teams to drive multimodal model capabilities, including video understanding, reasoning, and agentic

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