Apple Building Team of Engineers with Focus on Speech Technology

Apple has posted several job listings for experts in voice technologies such as speech recognition, iOS software development for speech applications, and speech research, according to CNet’s Crave blog.

Specifically, Apple wants a Senior Speech Research Scientist, one iOS Speech Application Engineer, and two Speech Recognition Engineers.

All job descriptions sound alike. Apple entices potential applicants by rhetorically asking “Are you looking to contribute to a product that is redefining the smartphone?”

“The iOS Application Frameworks team is looking for an exceptional Speech Research Scientist,” reads the description for iOS Speech Application Engineer.

According to Apple, this individual will work with an engineering team on a wide variety of speech-related development activities.

“We need a team player - you will be working closely with engineers on the Application Frameworks team as well as other teams at Apple - and we need someone who is comfortable working in a fast paced environment with rapidly changing priorities,” Apple outlines.

The required education and experience differs from one job description to another.

For example, the Senior Speech Research Scientist is required a master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field, experience developing speech recognition systems, and speech recognition research experience, including running experiments and finding innovative ways of improving quality of speech recognition systems.

An ideal candidate will also have background in developing Statistical Language Model (SLM) based speech systems, and demonstrated leadership in the field of speech recognition research.

For the iOS Speech Application Engineer, Apple wants a person who has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field, experience developing speech applications, evaluation of speech quality, and corpus management.

For Speech Recognition Engineer, the requirements are:

· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
· Experience developing core speech recognition technology
· Evaluation of speech quality, performance tuning and system scaling

Preferred:
· Background in developing Statistical Language Model (SLM) based speech recognition systems
· Demonstrated experience in building large scale systems in the speech recognition field.