Apple

Summary

Posted: Jul 01, 2026

Role Number:200670629

If you are passionate about advancing video understanding, video generation, and photography intelligence, and are driven to pursue excellence, embrace challenges, collaborate with others, and learn new things along the way, Apple is the right place for you. We are looking for engineers who combine deep technical expertise, creativity, and systems thinking to push the boundaries of video intelligence.

Description

The Video Intelligence Intern will join the China Vision Lab under the Video Engineering organization, contributing to the development of on-device computer vision and machine perception technologies across Apple’s ecosystem. In this role, you will design and implement cutting-edge machine learning systems in areas such as video understanding, video generation, and photography intelligence. You will work on advanced algorithms and models that are optimized to run efficiently across a range of Apple products, including iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro. This position offers a unique opportunity to bridge research and product, delivering state-of-the-art experiences to millions of users. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to drive innovation across the full technology stack and help bring new ideas from concept to production.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop machine learning models for video understanding, video generation, and computational photography
• Optimize models for efficient on-device deployment across Apple platforms
• Conduct research and prototype state-of-the-art algorithms in video intelligence
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including hardware, software, and product design to deliver end-to-end solutions
• Analyze and improve system performance, scalability, and user experience
• File patents and papers in top-tier conferences

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• Strong foundation in computer vision and machine learning
• Experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
• Solid programming skills in Python and/or C++
• Familiarity with video processing, image understanding, or generative models

Preferred Qualifications

• Publications in top-tier conferences (e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, SIGGRAPH)
• Solid understanding and industry experiences on computational photography, visual perception or reasoning algorithms, MLLM, diffusion models, etc
• Familiarity with optimizing algorithms that run efficiently on mobile/embedded platforms
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Team oriented, result oriented, and self motivated

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity, and thus we treat all applicants fairly and equally. Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.

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