Machine Learning Engineer - Speech & Multimodal Language Modeling

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Salary

$147K-$272K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$111,944 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+13.7% - Much faster than average

87% above the BLS role benchmark for data and ml aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Data and ML aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Machine Learning Engineer - Speech & Multimodal Language Modeling Cupertino, United States of America Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or experience we deliver is the result of us making each other's ideas stronger. The diversity of our people and their thinking inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you'll do more than join something - you'll add something. The Special Projects team at Apple is developing novel user-facing features that leverage the multimodal capabilities of state-of-the-art foundation language models. We are looking for a highly skilled Machine Learning Engineer to build and evaluate these experiences, with a specific focus on Multimodal and Speech Language Models. A successful candidate is experienced in evaluating complex foundation model-driven systems end-to-end, translating subjective product requirements into objective criteria, has strong statistical analysis skills, and has worked with Speech Language Models. Design and implement processes for evaluating and improving multi-modal generative models to meet end-to-end product requirements. Work with Data Engineers to process large scale speech audio data for foundation model training Fine-tune Large Language Models (LLMs) and Speech Language Models (SpeechLMs) to improve performance for specific use cases Work closely with other ML Researchers to define evaluation criteria and methodology to systematically evaluate foundation models Experimental design for testing models/systems under test Conduct robust statistical analysis to identify

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