**Weekly Hours:** 40
**Role Number:** 200662258-0836
**Summary**
We are a group of engineers/researchers responsible for advancing Siri Conversational AI at Apple. Our mission is to build cutting-edge infrastructure, datasets, and models that empower Siri with capabilities across natural language understanding, dialog generation, speech synthesis and recognition, and multi-modal interaction. We apply these technologies to create engaging, intelligent, and personalized conversational experiences for millions of Apple users!
**Description**
We believe that the most impactful breakthroughs in deep learning emerge when we address real-world problems at scale while we preserve user privacy. Siri presents a unique and rich set of challenges—from robust understanding of diverse user intents to fluid, contextual, and trustworthy multi-turn dialog. Join us, and we will take on the challenges to push the frontiers of foundation models and conversational AI!
**Minimum Qualifications**
+ MSc in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field
+ Proven experience in machine learning or a related engineering role
+ Strong proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX)
+ Experience with the full ML lifecycle: data processing, training, evaluation, deployment
+ Familiarity with distributed training and large-scale data pipelines
+ Solid understanding of ML fundamentals: supervised/unsupervised learning, model evaluation, regularization
+ Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
+ Strong software engineering practices: testing, code review, version control
**Preferred Qualifications**
+ PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a related field
+ Experience with LLMs, pre-training, fine-tuning, RL
+ Familiarity with MLOps tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases, Kubeflow)
+ Background in a specific domain (audio generation, speech-to-speech, NLP)
+ Experience with real-time serving infrastructure