Machine Learning Research Engineer, Machine TranslationJoin our innovative AI/ML - Machine Translation team and be at the forefront of revolutionizing human-computer interaction.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will focus on developing and enhancing our Machine Learning Automation and Tooling.
You will work closely with cross-functional teams to build scalable, robust, and efficient model automation pipelines that power our language technologies.
Description
Machine Translation is a critical technology that enables connecting people across language barriers.
The Apple MT organization is responsible for the R&D of state-of-the-art approaches to MT as well as applications of this technology (e.g., Translate app, Safari web page translation and System-wide translation).
We are looking for research scientists and engineers passionate about applied research in the space of MT, investigating novel modeling and learning approaches and evaluation methods.
As a member of the core modeling team, you will have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of language technologies and advance the edge of the MT technology to tackle real-world problems.
The successful candidate should have excellent oral and written communication skills and be a team player.
A track record of impactful contributions to the field of MT or related fields is preferred for senior researchers.
Minimum Qualifications 3+ years of experience in machine learning and NLP including model training, inference, 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 of common deep learning toolkits including JAX, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.Passionate about machine translation, large language models, and natural language processing.Preferred Qualifications Expertise in key language technologies including machine translation and natural language processing.Ability to formulate a research problem, design, experiment, and implement solutions.Experience working with standard MT/NLP toolkits preferred, e.g.
FairSeq, OpenNMT, etc.Design and deployment of real-world, large-scale, user-facing MT or LLM systems.Excellent spoken and written communication skills.Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity.
We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
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