Apple · 5 months ago
Machine Learning Engineer, Siri Speech
Cupertino, California, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$147K/yr - $272K/yr
5+ years expApple is seeking an exceptional senior ML engineer to join the Siri Speech team, focused on cutting-edge generative modeling technologies. The role involves collecting and preparing large-scale speech data, training and adapting models, and deploying them in production to enhance the conversational understanding of Siri.
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Responsibilities
Working with existing data pipelines and annotation teams to collect, clean, and analyze speech and multimodal datasets
Training large language and multimodal models on distributed back-ends, and adapting them for on-device deployment
Ensuring quality with an emphasis on data and model robustness
Interacting closely with other ML researchers, software engineers, and design teams
Enriching conversation understanding through LLM and multimodal models with added attention to the data that makes these models excel
Qualification
Required
5–7 + years experience in Machine Learning applied to Speech & NLP
Hands-on experience training LLMs, adapting pre-trained LLMs for downstream tasks, and leveraging curated datasets or human-feedback data
Familiarity with large-scale data collection/processing (e.g., annotation guidance, data quality checks)
Experience delivering ML capabilities into great products
Proficiency with ML toolkits such as PyTorch
Strong programming skills in Python and either C or C++
Preferred
B.S or M.S in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
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Benefits
Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
Retirement benefits
A range of discounted products and free services
Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
Relocation
Company
Apple
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