AIML - Machine Learning Researcher, Speech

Apple • Cupertino, CA

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About The Position

Play a part in building the next revolution in speech and machine learning technology. We're looking for passionate researchers to work on ambitious, curiosity-driven, long-term speech research projects. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to work on innovative foundational research in speech technology and machine learning. As a member of the team, you will be inspired by a diversity of challenging problems, collaborate with world-class machine learning engineers and researchers to impact the future of Apple products, and publish some of your results in high-quality scientific venues.

Requirements

• Demonstrated expertise in machine learning research
• Publication record in relevant machine learning conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.) and/or relevant speech conference/Journals (e.g., Interspeech, ICASSP, ASRU, etc.)
• Hands-on experience working with deep learning toolkits such as PyTorch
• Strong mathematical skills in linear algebra and statistics
• PhD, or equivalent practical experience, in Computer Science, or related technical field.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to formulate a research problem and design, experiment, implement, and communicate solutions.
• Ability to work in a diverse, collaborative environment
• High-quality open-source contributions to related projects
• Strong presentation skills for internal and external communications.

Responsibilities

• Pushing the boundaries of machine learning research, with a focus on running state-of-the-art speech models efficiently on-device.
• Collaborate with researchers to push the state-of-the-art in the speech domain, specifically focusing on ASR and speech language models.
• Publish research results in top conferences, making sure that research results are reproducible and of high quality.
• Prepare technical reports for publication and conference talks.
• Collaborate with broader teams across Apple.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree