Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Speech LLM Evaluation

Apple Inc

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Cupertino, CA
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$184,700–$324,800 / yr
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1 day ago
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TL;DR · Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Speech LLM Evaluation

As a Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Speech LLM Evaluation within the Siri organization, you will join the Speech Evaluation team to focus on evaluating audio large language models. You will own the data and metrics foundation for real-time speech understanding and generation models, ensuring they meet standards for accuracy, robustness, and conversational quality. Your daily work involves designing and curating multi-turn, multilingual evaluation datasets, building automated pipelines with LLM-as-judge tooling, and analyzing results to identify performance gaps. You will collaborate with modeling and infrastructure teams to integrate metrics into shared tools while partnering with human-evaluation programs to validate automated signals. The role requires proficiency in Python, experience with large-scale data processing, knowledge of statistics for model performance interpretation, and expertise in text, speech, or audio evaluation pipelines to solve complex problems in conversational AI.

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What you'll do

  • Design and curate audio evaluation datasets that reflect real-world, multilingual, and conversational scenarios.
  • Define and implement metrics for speech LLMs covering accuracy, robustness, and conversational quality.
  • Build automated evaluation pipelines and "LLM-as-judge" tooling to scale model assessment.
  • Analyze evaluation results to identify performance gaps and regressions for the modeling teams.
  • Design rating protocols for human evaluation programs to validate automated metric reliability.
  • Integrate new evaluation sets and metrics into shared infrastructure tools.
  • Develop evaluation methodologies for emerging audio LLM capabilities and novel model behaviors.

What we're looking for

  • 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 as applied to measuring model performance and interpreting results.
  • Familiarity with large language model evaluation techniques, including automated (LLM-as-judge) and human evaluation methods.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills to explain results to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience evaluating audio-native or multimodal models, designing human studies, or using distributed data frameworks (preferred).

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