Apple
Machine Learning Applied Researcher - Speech, Vision and Audio
$166K–$250K
Cambridge, Massachusetts · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Experience
- No minimum years stated; preferred qualification asks for 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; MS or PhD preferred.
About the job
Researches and develops deep learning models and algorithms across modalities, with a focus on speech recognition and solutions that can be adopted across teams.
What you'll do
- Research, design, and improve deep learning models and novel neural network architectures, including for ASR.
- Run experiments to solve ambiguous research problems and optimize model performance while considering latency, memory, and compute constraints.
- Collaborate across teams, communicate findings, and track frontier ML research.
What they ask for
- BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in academic or industry research.
- Experience working with Pytorch.
Nice to have
- MS or PhD in a related field with 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Deep learning theory and large-scale model training experience; knowledge of one or more of self-supervised learning, synthetic data generation, large language model training, or automatic speech recognition.
Pay
$165,800 and $249,500 (base salary)
Tools
Pytorch, ASR, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, Interspeech, ICASSP
AI focus
Applied ML research and development of frontier deep learning models and algorithms for speech recognition and multimodal data, including vision, audio, sensor, and text.
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