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# AI/ML - Applied Research Engineer, Machine Translation

- **Company:** Apple Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Big Data, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Human-Computer Interaction, Python (Programming Language), Machine Translation, Software Engineering, Large Language Models, Apache Spark, Data Management, Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** May 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://seeker-sp.worksourcewa.com/jobview/GetJob.aspx?JobID=293434576

## About the Role

+ 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 Qualifications**

 + 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

## Description

Would you like to play a critical part in the next revolution of human-computer interaction? The Apple Machine Translation team is building groundbreaking technology that enables connecting people across language barriers. We are looking for an Applied Research Engineer who is passionate about developing and optimizing solutions to create, maintain and ship scalable and high-quality model assets for a multitude of languages that power Apple's Machine Translation products such as Translate App, Safari web translation and system-wide translation., Apple's Machine Translation is embedded into several products across the iOS, iPadOS, macOS and watchOS ecosystems: from Translate App that is used to communicate across different languages to system-wide translation that allows you to quickly translate any highlighted text into an ever growing list of languages. Your role will be instrumental in applying and improving data and model training pipelines that allow for rapid expansion into supporting new languages and raising the bar for translation quality in shipped models. You will be part of a motivated and dynamic team that is responsible for managing data acquisition projects, training neural machine translation models, and driving evaluation criteria that help to establish an unprecedented translation quality in all of Apple's MT products.


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