Speech & Audio ML Algorithm Engineer

Apple • Cupertino, CA

2d

About The Position

Imagine what you could do at Apple! Everyday, new ideas have a way of becoming
extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Do you
bring passion and dedication to your job? If so, we are looking for individuals
like you. The Audio and Media Technologies (AMT) team is at the center of audio
& video processing in Apple’s innovative products, including iPhone, iPad, Mac,
Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod, Apple TV, and Vision Pro. AMT’s Audio team
provides the audio foundation for various high profile features like Phone
Calls, FaceTime, Siri, Audio Content Creation, Spatial Audio, and Media Capture
and Playback. As part of the Audio Algorithms group, you will research and
develop world class Audio Technologies across Apple products.

The Audio Algorithms team is seeking a highly skilled and creative engineer
interested in advancing audio technologies at Apple. As a member of the team,
you will work together with other researchers to develop cutting-edge machine
learning technologies for audio processing. You will research, implement, and
optimize these features on Apple's products as we push the state of the art in
audio technologies. You'll collaborate with multiple teams across product
development, Acoustics, Audio Software, and others to integrate your ideas into
products and build future technologies that will impact billions of Apple
customers.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience in generative machine learning
• Hands-on experience developing machine learning pipelines
• Research experience in audio algorithm development using machine learning (released product features, patents, papers, etc.)
• Proficiency in Python and common software engineering practices

Nice To Haves

• MS/PhD in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
• Experience with multimodal encoding, diffusion, flow matching, distillation
• Familiarity with developing ML for resource-constrained devices
• Familiarity with developing real-time speech and audio processing software
• Familiarity with psycho-acoustics, speech, and language modeling.

What This Job Offers

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