AI/ML - Machine Learning Research Engineer, Machine Translation

The Apple Machine Translation team is seeking exceptional researchers and scientists to contribute to the development of the next generation of core machine translation (MT) technology and large language model (LLM) technologies. Our mission is to empower our users to communicate seamlessly across language barriers and execute multilingual tasks with ease. If you are passionate about natural language processing, language modeling (LLMs), and machine translation, we invite you to join our team and collaborate on creating the most advanced multilingual solution across the Apple ecosystem.

An ideal candidate should possess exceptional oral and written communication skills and demonstrate a collaborative approach. A track record of impactful contributions to the field of LLM, MT, or related disciplines is highly preferred for senior researchers., + 3+ year experience in machine learning and NLP including model training, inference, Large Language Models and neural machine translation, language modeling, sequence-to-sequence models, etc.

• Experience developing AI/ML systems at scale in production or in high-impact research environments.

• Knowledge with common deep learning toolkits including JAX, PyTorch or Tensorflow.

• Passionate about machine translation, large language model and natural language processing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in key language technologies, including machine translation, large language models, and natural language processing.

• The ability to formulate research problems, design, experiment, and implement solutions in programming languages such as C/C++, Java, Python, and Bash scripting.

• The design and deployment of real-world, large-scale, user-facing machine translation or large language model systems.

• Strong spoken and written communication skills.