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# AI Research Scientist: Multimodal Foundation Models - Architecture, Pre-Training & Distillation

Sunnyvale, United States of America Research & Science 

Listed on Apple’s official careers site. Posted July 17, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there.
[Apply on Apple’s careers site →](https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200672934/ai-research-scientist-multimodal-foundation-models-architecture-pre-training-distillation)

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## Job description

The Multimodal Intelligence Team is building the next generation of foundation models for Apple experiences. We are looking for a research scientist to advance the architectures, pre-training methods, and distillation techniques that make highly capable multimodal models practical across the Apple ecosystem.

### Our research spans the full foundation-model lifecycle

model architecture, pre-training objectives, data mixtures, optimization, scaling, distillation, and evaluation. A defining challenge of our work is to develop models that combine broad intelligence with the memory, latency, energy, and privacy requirements of on-device deployment. You will have the opportunity to shape new research directions, conduct ambitious experiments at scale, and translate successful ideas into foundation-model technologies that can reach Apple products.

Where appropriate, this work may also lead to publications and the open sourcing of selected models, research artifacts, evaluations, or tools.

## At a glance
- Posted by the employer: Jul 17, 2026
- First seen by OpenNash: Aug 20, 2026
- Last checked: Oct 18, 2026
- Listed for: 93 days
- Location: Sunnyvale, United States of America[Apply on Apple’s careers site →](https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200672934/ai-research-scientist-multimodal-foundation-models-architecture-pre-training-distillation)

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