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Sound is an essential and compelling facet of the customer experience. Apple has assembled a world-class Acoustics team that enables our customers to experience music with delight, communicate with clarity and appreciate our products without disturbance from noise. In Apple Acoustics we work with obsessive attention to detail, directly contributing to products that ship to millions of people around the world.\nThe Audio System Tuning team is looking for an Acoustics ML and DSP Engineer to innovate on and improve the voice processing features and algorithms in Apple devices. This is an applied, product-focused role. You will develop, tune and ship ML and DSP algorithms for the voice audio front end across iOS, macOS and wireless products. Your work will keep phone and video calls clear and natural for everyone on the call, and make Siri and voice recognition reliable in real-world conditions. In this fast-paced, hands-on role, you will take algorithms from prototype through on-device testing into production, where they reach millions of customers. We’re looking for someone who enjoys turning new ideas into real product improvements, and who thrives while balancing several projects at once.\nDescription\nAs an Acoustics ML and DSP Engineer, you will develop new speech enhancement algorithms that combine machine learning and DSP, and take them from prototype to production on Apple devices. You will use and extend existing large-scale data preprocessing, simulation and cloud training pipelines, building new ones where needed. You will tune, optimize and listen to algorithms, and debug issues by tracing them to the data, the model or the signal chain. Your work will improve voice quality and intelligibility for telephony and voice calls in challenging conditions such as echo, double talk and noisy environments, and you will measure the effect of front-end processing on telephony quality and machine listening applications. You will also follow the state of the art in speech processing and adjacent fields, and work cross-functionally with tuning, DSP and audio ML colleagues within the team and with partners across the hardware and software organizations.\nMinimum Qualifications\nMS with 3+ years of relevant experience, or PhD, in Acoustics, Audio, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.\nSolid grasp of acoustics and signal processing fundamentals.\nExperience shipping audio or speech enhancement ML algorithms from prototype to production.\nProficiency with PyTorch and Python, including version control, testing and reproducible experiments.\nWorking knowledge of Max/MSP for real-time audio prototyping.\nExperience with causal, streaming models under real-time latency and compute constraints.\nExperience using, and where needed building, large-scale data and cloud training pipelines, including preprocessing and data simulation.\nWorking knowledge of speech quality evaluation: objective 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