Sr. ML Production Model Automation Engineer, Siri Speech

Apple Inc

Cupertino, CA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apple, Apple Siri, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, Automation Engineering, Bash Scripting, Cloud Computing, Computer Science, Data Management, Data Sets, Ergonomics, JAX (Java API for XML), Mac Operating System, Machine Learning, Machine Tool, Machining Operations, Multiplatform/Cross-Platform, Onboarding, Product Development, Programming Tools, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Refactoring, Root Cause Analysis, SLICE (Simulation Language with Integrated Circuit Emphasis), Software Engineering, Team Building, Theater Production, Unix Shell Programming, Voice Products, iOS
LOCATION
Cupertino, CA
POSTED
9 days ago

Join the team redefining what a deeply personal and integrated assistant can be.

As part of the Siri organization, you will help shape one of the worlds most widely used AI assistants, powered by our next-generation of Apple Intelligence, with capabilities like personal context understanding and on-screen awareness, built with privacy from the ground up. Your work will have direct, meaningful impact for users across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and visionOS.

This is a rare opportunity to build at the intersection of cutting-edge AI and human-centered design, shipping technology that is centered around users and their needs. We are the team building products for voice, dictation and other audio products at Apple. These are multimodal models that power Siri on-device speech features, and the next generation of audio experiences across our platforms. Our researchers and modeling engineers train models, iterate on data mixtures spanning conductor backed Siri telemetry to synthetic voice corpora, and stack supervised fine-tuning, LoRA adapter training, and reinforcement learning into pipelines that produce the adapters, tokenizers and detokenizers.

You'll join a small group of production automation engineers whose mandate is to turn the operational substrate underneath foundation model training into a reliable, observable, self-serve system. The work spans python, shell tooling, cloud platform integration, internal CLI design, and close partnership with the product and research teams you are enabling.Own the end-to-end model lifecycle building model pipelines, integrating with other Apple frameworks to enable rapid model iteration, staging promotion, production rollout and deprecation. Design and operate agent-based automation pipelines for ML models where agents own decision logic at each gate and humans approve only at defined escalation points Develop multi-agent workflows using LLM-native tooling for on-device evaluation, regression triage, release readiness decisions, and automated root cause analysis. Own the launch tooling to build and improve the shell scripts and CLI commands that turn a config-name and a dataset into a running training job - across SFT, LoRA adapter, and RL phases.Strong software engineering fundamentals; comfortable in Python and Bash, comfortable reading and refactoring large internal codebases. 5+ years experience in Machine Learning Operations. Production experience with one or more cloud ML platforms (GCP TPU, AWS GPU clusters, Kubernetes-backed training infra) including submitting jobs, debugging schedulers, working around quota systems. Familiarity with the ML training lifecycle: data preprocessing pipelines, distributed training, checkpoint formats, multi-slice / multi-region considerations. Experience with infrastructure-as-code, CLI tool design, and developer ergonomics. Youve shipped tools that other engineers actually use. Bias toward observability and reliability. Comfortable working across team boundaries: youll partner with researchers, product and infra teams.Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical discipline Hands-on with JAX, XLA, or large-model training stacks or equivalent. Experience with multi-slice TPU training and cross-region GCS / S3-compatible storage. Background in MLOps tools: model registries, feature stores, experiment trackers, reward-model serving for RL. Prior work simplifying onboarding and access provisioning (Apple Access Manager, AWS IAM at scale, or equivalent). Experience writing Claude Code / agent skills, runbooks, or other LLM-assisted developer tooling.

About the Company

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Apple Inc

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We’re a diverse collection of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, as well as with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. And the same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.

About Apple

There’s a place here for every kind of brilliant. Everyone here is an innovator, or an innovator-to-be, no matter what your team or your role. So bring your passion, courage, and original thinking and get ready to share it, because every new product, service, or feature we invent is the result of people working together to make each others’ ideas stronger. Innovation at this level depends on people who represent the variety of the human experience and inspire us with their own fresh perspectives. Together, we’ll do amazing work that can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own. Learn more about working at Apple.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
1976
WEBSITE
https://www.apple.com/jobs