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Apple · 4 months ago

AI/ML - Applied Research Engineer, Machine Translation

positionNew York City, New York, United States
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityEntry, Mid Level
money$172K/yr - $302K/yr
date2+ years exp

Apple is looking for an Applied Research Engineer to join their Machine Translation team, which is focused on developing technology that bridges language barriers. The role involves optimizing solutions to create and maintain scalable model assets for Apple's Machine Translation products.

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Responsibilities

Apply and improve data and model training pipelines for new languages
Manage data acquisition projects
Train neural machine translation models
Drive evaluation criteria to establish translation quality in Apple's MT products

Qualification

PythonMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingLarge Scale Data ProcessingDistributed Cloud ComputingCommunicationTeam Player

Required

Strong programming and software engineering skills (Python, C++, Java, or equivalent)
Good ML knowledge and modeling expertise in the context of NLP applications such as LLM, MT, ASR etc
Experience with large scale data processing (Spark, or equivalent), data management and analytics
Ability to manage complex processes across multiple stakeholders
Excellent communication skills and team player
Motivation to build the best products for Apple's customers

Preferred

2+ years of experience in software engineering
Experience in building large scale ML systems is a plus
Distributed cloud computing experience (GCP, AWS) is a plus

Benefits

Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
Retirement benefits
A range of discounted products and free services
Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
Relocation

Company

Apple

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Apple is a technology company that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software.
dateFounded in 1976
location
Cupertino, California, USA
people-size10001+ employees
web-link
https://www.apple.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$5.67B
Key Investors
Berkshire HathawayMicrosoftSequoia Capital
2025-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $4.5B
2025-01-16Post Ipo Debt· $0.31M
2021-04-30Post Ipo Equity

Leadership Team

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Tim Cook
CEO
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Craig Federighi
SVP, Software Engineering

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