- Apple
- Barcelona, CT
- Full-Time
- <48 Hours
Language Engineer (English UK), Global Siri.
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Language Engineer (English UK), Global Siri: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This role is for an engineer shaping Siri for English users through machine learning, NLP, and software engineering.
- The Person:The person will design and implement large-scale ML and GenAI solutions, work across speech recognition and natural language understanding, run data experiments, and share architectural proposals with partner teams.
- Requirements:The ideal candidate has professional-level fluency in English, deep familiarity with the culture and idiom of the United Kingdom or other English-speaking regions, and experience with machine learning, NLP, software design, programming, data at scale, and large language models.
About the role
Play a part in the next revolution of machine learning technology! Siri assists hundreds of millions of people, in dozens of languages, every day, and Global Siri is the team that teaches Siri each one of them.
We own the product end-to-end, from Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding through to Response. We are looking for an engineer with deep expertise in either Machine Learning or Software Engineering, and practical working knowledge of the other, to shape the future of Siri for English users.
Your work will range across multiple disciplines, including employing advanced Large Language Models (LLMs), adopting models for global markets, running data experiments, and engineering scalable software to deliver highly personalized, culturally relevant experiences for our customers.
Description
As a member of our dynamic and fast-paced group, you will play a key role in crafting innovative, end-to-end solutions that delight millions of customers across the globe. You will act as the technical anchor for the UK English speaking market, leading work streams to design and implement large-scale ML and GenAI solutions that advance our customer experience.
This position sits squarely at the intersection of Machine Learning, Data, and Software Engineering. Whether you are a strong Software Engineer who has applied ML to production systems, or an ML expert with solid coding skills, you will leverage large language models (LLMs), agentic approaches to tasks, and data generation methods to build real-world systems.
You will work with partner teams across Apple, sharing your expertise and bringing architectural proposals that account for international market nuances, so that Siri feels genuinely native to English users.
Join us as we build the foundation of Siri AI for users around the world!
Minimum Qualifications
Professional-level fluency in English, with deep familiarity with the culture and idiom of the United Kingdom or other English-speaking regions.
Experience in applying machine learning and NLP techniques to deliver products, with a solid understanding of ML concepts
Strong skills in software design and programming across different paradigms, including testing and maintainability, with experience contributing to large production code bases.
Experience working with data at scale, including building or curating datasets, analyzing results, and making data driven decisions.
Preferred Qualifications
Hands-on experience with large language models: fine-tuning, prompt and context engineering, evaluation, and inference optimization, including agentic systems, tool calling, or retrieval-augmented generation.
Experience with speech technologies such as ASR, TTS, or pronunciation modeling.
Experience adapting models or products across languages and markets — multilingual and cross-lingual modeling, transfer learning, or low-resource settings.
Ability to formulate a research problem, design, experiment, implement and communicate solutions.
Product focus with a strong emphasis on end-user experience.
Experience writing software in Python, Swift, Objective-C, C++ or C; experience on Apple platforms preferred.
M.S, Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
