Generative Audio ML Researcher - On-Device AI

Apple, Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking a Machine Learning Researcher to advance generative audio capabilities within the Apple Services Engineering team in London. You will research diffusion/flow-matching approaches for voice generation, media synthesis and real-time generation, while ensuring evaluation rigor and alignment with user expectations.

You will publish, benchmark, and collaborate with colleagues across research, engineering and design to ship impactful listening experiences.

Qualifications

• PhD in computer science, statistics, applied mathematics or related field.
• Peer-reviewed publications at venues such as ICASSP, ISMIR, Interspeech, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML or related.
• Expertise in generative modelling, machine learning, music information retrieval or speech and audio processing.
• Industry experience of coding in Python and PyTorch or JAX.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research in generative audio using diffusion or flow-matching models.
• Publish results and benchmark against the state of the art.
• Turn research into real listening experiences with cross-functional partners.
• Run experiments at scale on internal infrastructure and collaborate with engineers.

Skills

Python programming

Machine learning

Generative modelling

Communication

Education

PhD in computer science or related field

Tools

Python

PyTorch

JAX

Job description

Apple is seeking a Machine Learning Researcher to advance generative audio capabilities within the Apple Services Engineering team in London. You will research diffusion/flow-matching approaches for voice generation, media synthesis and real-time generation, while ensuring evaluation rigor and alignment with user expectations.

You will publish, benchmark, and collaborate with colleagues across research, engineering and design to ship impactful listening experiences.