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Machine Learning Engineering Intern, Personal Agentic Search

Apple
Cambridge, GBR
Full-time
Intern
Onsite
Discovered Today
Machine learningComputer science fundamentalsData structures and algorithmsSoftware designPythonSwift

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Internship overview

Join Apple's Personal Agentic Search team, which builds AI-powered agents to help users find and act on personal information.

Work on machine learning systems for user-facing features, with an emphasis on privacy.

This internship sits at the intersection of NLP, large language models, and information retrieval.

What you'll do

  • Help build and evaluate machine learning systems for Personal Agentic Search.
  • Work on real projects with experienced engineers and researchers.
  • Help turn research ideas into robust user-facing experiences.
  • Contribute to agents that understand context, reason over personal data, and retrieve relevant information while preserving privacy.

Minimum qualifications

  • Currently pursuing a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
  • Strong computer science foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Swift, C++, or Java.
  • Solid machine learning foundation and working knowledge of NLP fundamentals, including tokenization, embeddings, language modeling, and text classification.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills and interest in team-based work.

Preferred qualifications

  • Familiarity with LLM architectures such as Transformers and attention mechanisms, and how models are trained and applied.
  • Familiarity with search and retrieval algorithms, including indexing, ranking, nearest-neighbor search, and relevance evaluation.
  • Experience with agentic LLM workflows such as planning, tool calling, and multi-step reasoning.
  • Experience with on-device machine learning or privacy-preserving ML.
  • Experience designing experiments, metrics, and datasets to evaluate model or search quality.
  • Proficiency in more than one of Python, Swift, and C++.

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