Natural Language Modeling Research Scientist, Siri

Apple

96d • $181,100 - $272,100

About The Position

Are you excited about Generative AI and Large Language Models? Are you interested in working on cutting edge generative modeling technologies and its application to virtual assistants to enrich billions of people!? Join the SWE Response team at Apple! We are looking for 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. Additionally, you'll advance and apply the latest ML techniques to Apple's virtual assistant and dive into the details to craft the Siri experience for millions of users worldwide.

Requirements

• 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++

Nice To Haves

• Experience with JAX

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 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

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 assistance
• Participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs
• Eligibility for discretionary restricted stock unit awards
• Ability to purchase Apple stock at a discount through Employee Stock Purchase Plan

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing