Apple · 3 months ago
Lead Natural Language Modeling Research Scientist, Siri Speech
Apple is seeking an exceptional senior research scientist experienced in design and development of training, adapting and deploying large scale ML models with a focus on natural language understanding, generation, speech and/or multimodal generation. The role involves enriching conversation understanding capabilities through LLM and multimodal models, while ensuring quality with an emphasis on fairness and model robustness.
AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)BroadcastingDigital EntertainmentFoundational AIMedia and EntertainmentMobile DevicesOperating SystemsTVWearables
Responsibilities
Training large scale language and multimodal models on distributed backends
Deployment of compact neural architectures such as transformers efficiently on device
Learning policies that can be personalized to the user in a privacy preserving manner
Ensuring quality with an emphasis on fairness and model robustness
Interacting very closely with a variety of ML researchers, software engineers, hardware & design teams cross functionally
Enriching conversation understanding capabilities through LLM and multimodal models
Focusing on enriching system safety experience
Qualification
Required
5 - 7+ years experience in Machine Learning and its application to NLP, NLG or Speech
Hands on experience training LLMs, adapting pre-trained LLMs for downstream tasks & human alignment
Experience delivering ML capabilities into great products
Proficiency in using ML toolkits, e.g., PyTorch
Strong programming skills in Python, C and C++
Preferred
JAX (nice to have)
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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