Machine Learning Engineer - Speech & Multimodal Language Modeling

Apple • Cupertino, CA

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About The Position

The Special Projects team at Apple is developing novel user-facing features that leverage the multimodal capabilities of state-of-the-art foundation language models. We are looking for a highly skilled Machine Learning Engineer to build and evaluate these experiences, with a specific focus on Multimodal and Speech Language Models. A successful candidate is experienced in evaluating complex foundation model-driven systems end-to-end, translating subjective product requirements into objective criteria, has strong statistical analysis skills, and has worked with Speech Language Models.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or Machine Learning
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building and evaluating generative AI models
• Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (Pytorch or Tensorflow)

Nice To Haves

• PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or other STEM field
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with SpeechLMs or LLMs
• Experience with large-scale audio data processing on distributed systems
• Experience with prompt evaluation and optimization for generative AI models
• Proficiency in training, fine-tuning, and evaluation of foundation models and frameworks
• A track record of publications or technical presentations in Machine Learning journals or conferences
• Excellent communication skills and cross-functional collaboration

Responsibilities

• Build and evaluate novel user-facing features that leverage multimodal capabilities of state-of-the-art foundation language models
• Evaluate complex foundation model-driven systems end-to-end
• Translate subjective product requirements into objective criteria

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees