Localization ML Engineer: Pioneering Global Translation with LLMs

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & Dental benefits

Employee stock programs

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking an Applied Machine Learning Engineer for Localization in Cupertino. You will design and qualify localization features across Apple products, focusing on ML models and machine translation within Xcode's localization workflow.

You will lead end-to-end model development, training, experimentation and deployment while collaborating across translation, quality, project management and engineering teams to deliver world-class localization tooling.

Qualifications

• MS in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or Machine Learning (or equivalent experience).
• Strong background in ML, NLP and large language models.
• Experience translating research into production-ready ML systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead exploration and application of LLMs for translation tasks.
• Develop and deploy ML models for localization workflows.
• Collaborate with localization, quality, PM and engineering teams to implement ML solutions.

Skills

LLMs

NLP

Python

C/C++

Machine learning

Python programming

Text processing

Fine-tuning

Education

MS in Computer Science/AI/ML

Tools

Xcode

PyTorch

TensorFlow

OpenNMT

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking an Applied Machine Learning Engineer for Localization in Cupertino. You will design and qualify localization features across Apple products, focusing on ML models and machine translation within Xcode's localization workflow.

You will lead end-to-end model development, training, experimentation and deployment while collaborating across translation, quality, project management and engineering teams to deliver world-class localization tooling.