As a member of our fast-paced group, you’ll have the unique and rewarding opportunity to shape upcoming products from Apple. We are looking for people with excellent applied machine learning, NLP experience and solid engineering skills in creating outstanding search and NLP services. This role will have the following responsibilities:Working on query understanding components such as intent classification, entity recognition, entity linking, etc. and analyzing query understanding issues and opportunitiesDeveloping, fine-tuning, and evaluating domain specific Large Language Models for various tasks and applications in Apple’s AI powered productsConducting applied research to transfer the cutting edge research in generative AI to production ready technologiesUnderstanding product requirements, translate them into modeling tasks and engineering tasksBuilding machine learned models for entity linking, intent classification, entity recognition, search relevance, ranking and query understanding problemsIntegrating search functions into Apple products, such as Siri, Spotlight, Safari, Messages, Lookup, etc.Building end-to-end production system including query understanding and ranking to power searchUtilizing Spark, Hadoop MapReduce, Hive, Impala to perform distributed data processing