Apple

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Speech LLM Evaluation

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16 hours ago
Cupertino, CA, USASenior
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Responsibilities

  • Build and curate evaluation datasets that reflect real-world speech usage, including personalized named-entity queries and multi-turn conversations.
  • Design metrics and automated judges for evaluating speech LLM accuracy, robustness, and conversational quality.
  • Develop data and evaluation pipelines for large-scale audio and speech model assessment.
  • Partner with modeling, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure models are evaluated quickly, consistently, and rigorously.
  • Communicate evaluation results and actionable insights to technical and non-technical audiences.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience building or working with text, speech, or audio evaluation pipelines and metrics.
  • Proficiency in Python and experience building data processing pipelines at scale.
  • Experience curating or annotating datasets for machine learning evaluation or training.
  • Working knowledge of statistics for measuring model performance and interpreting evaluation results.
  • Familiarity with large language model evaluation techniques, including automated LLM-as-judge and human evaluation methods.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Preferred qualifications include audio-native or multimodal LLM evaluation, large-scale human evaluation studies, speech personalization and named-entity evaluation, multilingual audio dataset development, distributed data processing with frameworks such as Spark, and contributions to speech, audio ML, or NLP evaluation.

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10,000+ employees

Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and services for consumers and professionals worldwide, including iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods, plus platforms like iOS/macOS and services such as the App Store, iCloud, Music, and TV+. Its business combines device sales with services and subscriptions and in-house silicon design. Founded in 1976, Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, and trades on NASDAQ as AAPL.

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