Machine Learning Research Engineer, Text Generation
Apple
Full-time
On-site
Seattle, Washington, United States
Machine Learning
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Text generation is a key enabler for accelerated text input and intelligent interaction on Apple platforms. Our team is working on redefining user interaction with generative models for text generation. If you want to be part of an ambitious, organized and collaborative team that ships user experiences with pioneering ML, partnered with the best UI designs, come join the Input Experience NLP team. Our work has been highlighted in multiple WWDC keynotes including Intelligent Input in 2023, Writing Tools and Smart Reply in 2024!
We exemplify Apple’s outstanding integration of hardware and software to create seamless input experiences. You will have the opportunity to go from building offline pioneering NLP models to optimization of the models for different hardware backends and user interfaces that make the experience magical. Our vision always includes a deep dedication to strengthening Apple’s privacy policy by achieving all of the above on device with powerful ML.
Description
As a key pillar of Apple Intelligence, input experience will be the main area where you bring impact to billions of users with your ML expertise, engineering passion, and programming skills.
You will work with a hard-working and dedicated set of outstanding ML and software engineers on a wide range of most advanced text generation technologies such as context-augmented text rewriting, safety-controlled text composition, free-form text transformation, personalized smart interactions, etc. Our team has been working in this area for years and own the NLP and ML text input stack for the keyboard input that includes auto correction, predictive typing on all Apple platforms. We also work on full stack ML applied to NLP and expose these key technologies across Apple on device and also to third party applications through the Natural-Language framework. If you want to amplify your strong ML and NLP skills into user experiences that will reach every person around you, this is the perfect opportunity!
Minimum Qualifications
- Strong machine learning fundamentals
- Strong programming and communication skills
- Ph. D. in CS/EE/Physics/Statistics/etc. (or Bachelor/Master with 2 years of proven experience)
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiar with model compression algorithms including quantization, pruning, distillations, and experience on optimizing large diffusion models or language models
- Experience with hardware architecture, software & hardware co-design
- Knowledge of ML techniques such as implementing basic optimizers, applying parameter tuning in model training and evaluation, and reproducing research experiments
- Experience with deploying large ML models in real world products
- Actively programming with high-quality codes across complex and large repositories
- Familiar with common NLP algorithms and applications, including tokenization, language modeling, text decoding, text classifier etc
- Experience of multi-modal modeling, presenting plans, progress, and results or demos regularly and concisely
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
Pay & Benefits
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