Machine Learning Architect - Conversational Speech
Core
Define modeling strategy and technical direction for Apple's conversational speech technologies, including speech recognition, synthesis, dialog systems, and multimodal foundation models.
Role type
Senior IC Machine Learning Architect (Conversational Speech)
Builds
Production-ready speech models and systems for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and visionOS
Domain
Consumer AI / Speech Technology
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Machine learning for speech/multimodal systems, Deep learning (LLMs, end-to-end speech), Multimodal LLM architecture design, Speech-to-speech conversational systems, Python, PyTorch/JAX/TensorFlow
Preferred skills
Ph.D. in CS/EE/ML, Full-duplex natural conversational system architecture, Large-scale distributed training, On-device ML deployment (compression, quantization), Data-centric foundation model development