Job Details

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200650142-0836

Summary

Join Apple's Entity and App Resolution team, where we build the intelligent systems that help
customers find and interact with exactly what they're looking for. Our work powers personalized search and resolution capabilities that improve user experiences.

We're seeking a Computational Linguist to support our entity resolution systems through data-driven
work. In this role, you'll help construct, generate, annotate, maintain, and analyze the data that power
our products. You'll help build processes and pipelines to streamline data workflows. You will also be responsible for documenting and communicating processes, guidelines, and findings. You'll work across engineering, quality, localization, and UX teams, applying your linguistic expertise to ensure our systems work well across different contexts and locales. Your systematic and organized approaches will help to increase efficiency within and across teams.

Description

Data Generation & Management: Design, generate, and maintain high-quality datasets for entity resolution testing and evaluation; automate data generation pipelines where possible
Annotation Projects: Plan, manage, and execute annotation projects; create annotation guidelines, coordinate with annotators, ensure quality and consistency
Data Analysis: Clean, process, and analyze language data using linguistic expertise to identify patterns, edge cases, and system failures; surface insights that drive product improvements
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Quality Engineering, UX researchers, engineers, and localization teams to ensure entity resolution meets quality standards and user needs
Localization Awareness: Work with internationalization to identify and address language-specific and cultural issues in entity resolution across different locales
Testing & Evaluation: Design systematic test cases and evaluation frameworks; analyze test results to identify linguistic patterns in failures
Documentation: Create clear, comprehensive documentation of scope, datasets, processes, findings, and recommendations for diverse audiences

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or related field

• Strong data skills: cleaning, processing, analyzing, and finding patterns in language data

• Strong analytical skills: Experience with quantitative and qualitative data analyses

• Coding skills (e.g. Python, R) for the purpose of data processing and analysis

• 3-5 years of industry experience

• Experience with linguistic annotation

• Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally

• Strong organizational skills and documentation practices

• • Systematic thinking and attention to detail
• • Basic understanding of machine learning concepts

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with version control (Git or similar)

• Familiarity with conversational systems, NLP, or search systems

• Experience managing or participating in annotation projects

• Experience with localization or multilingual issues in language technology

• Project management experience (academic or professional)

• Experience working with engineers or technical teams

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote 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. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .