Job Description

Locations

• San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States 15213
• Seattle, Washington, United States 98117

Salary

Skills Required

• natural language processingintermediate
• language modelingintermediate
• machine translationintermediate
• multilingual large language modelsintermediate
• applied researchintermediate
• modeling approachesintermediate
• learning approachesintermediate
• evaluation methodsintermediate
• oral communication skillsintermediate
• written communication skillsintermediate
• collaborative approachintermediate

Required Qualifications

• 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, 3 years)
• Experience developing AI/ML systems at scale in production or in high-impact research environments. (experience)
• Knowledge with common deep learning toolkits including JAX, PyTorch or Tensorflow. (experience)
• Passionate about machine translation, large language model and natural language processing. (experience)

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in key language technologies, including machine translation, large language models, and natural language processing. (experience)
• The ability to formulate research problems, design, experiment, and implement solutions in programming languages such as C/C++, Java, Python, and Bash scripting. (experience)
• The design and deployment of real-world, large-scale, user-facing machine translation or large language model systems. (experience)
• Strong spoken and written communication skills. (experience)

Responsibilities

• Multilingual tasks, particularly Machine Translation, have advanced significantly due to the development of multilingual Large Language Models. The Apple MT organization is dedicated to researching state-of-the-art approaches to Machine Translation and Multilingual Large Language Models, as well as applications of this technology. These applications include the Translate app, Safari web page translation, and system-wide translation.
• We are seeking research scientists and engineers with a passion for applied research in the field of Multilingual Large Language Models and Machine Translation. Your role will involve investigating novel modeling and learning approaches and evaluation methods. As a member of the core modeling team, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse range of language technologies and contribute to the advancement of LLM and MT technology to address real-world challenges.
• 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.

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