Job Details

Role Number: 200613688-3401

Summary

Are you excited about Generative AI and Large Language Models? Are you interested in working on cutting-edge generative modeling technologies—plus the high-quality data that fuels them—to enrich billions of people? Join the Siri Speech team at Apple!

We are looking for an exceptional Senior ML engineer experienced in collecting and preparing large-scale speech data, training/adapting models, and deploying them in production. You’ll advance the latest ML techniques, shape the datasets that power Siri, and dive into the details to craft experiences for millions of users worldwide.

Description

We are seeking a candidate with a consistent track record in applied ML engineering. Responsibilities in the role will include 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. You will interact closely with other ML researchers, software engineers, and design teams. Your primary focus will still be enriching conversation understanding through LLM and multimodal models—now with added attention to the data that makes these models excel.

Minimum Qualifications

• 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 Qualifications

• B.S or M.S in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

• JAX

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