Speech Algorithms Software Engineer

Weekly Hours : 40

Role Number : 200627134-3401

Summary

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, intelligent people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our dedication to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product. Do you love working on challenges that no one has solved yet? As a member of our dynamic group, you will have the unique and exciting opportunity to craft upcoming products and services that will delight and inspire millions of Apple’s customers every single day.

Apple is seeking highly skilled and creative engineers interested in advancing speech and audio technologies on the audio algorithms team. As a member of the team, you will research multimodal deep learning approaches to leverage audio, video, and other signals for improving speech and audio acquisition. You will work alongside a group of researchers developing machine learning and multichannel signal processing technologies for speech enhancement including source separation, adaptive beamforming, de-reverberation, and source localization. You’ll collaborate with multiple teams across product development, software, and Siri to integrate your ideas into products and build future technologies that will impact millions of Apple customers.

Description

As an member of the audio algorithms team, this engineer will research and invent novel solutions for challenging speech and audio problems that directly affect the future of Apple products. This team is part of the Audio & Media Technologies Group in Software Engineering which provides audio, video, and graphics support across all Apple products, including iPhone, iPad, HomePod, AirPods, Apple TV, Mac, and Apple Watch. The Audio Software group is a hardworking group of audio engineers and researchers building high profile features such as FaceTime, Siri, music playback, audio / video capture, and game audio for macOS, iOS, watchOS and tvOS. We are excited to add a member to our team with the above qualifications!

Minimum Qualifications

PhD in Computer Science or related

Research experience in audio or speech algorithm development (patents,

papers, etc.)

Experience in machine learning for audio or speech processing

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with multi-microphone algorithm development

Proven understanding of deep learning toolkits (TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.)

Fluency in Python

Experience with machine learning methods for video scene understanding a plus

Experience with speech recognition systems and toolkits a plus

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