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Apple's WW Channel Strategy & Operations (CSO) organization focuses on developing and deploying worldwide sales programs and best practices to deliver an extraordinary customer experience in the channel and drive Apple Channel sales. With deep functional expertise in digital, physical, and people enablement spaces, our WW CSO team closely collaborates with many cross-functional groups at world-wide and regional levels.
We are seeking a talented AI NLP engineering manager with experience leading engineering teams and creating customer service or training solutions. In this position, you will lead, develop, and coach a team of individuals responsible for building and implementing advanced natural language processing techniques to create assisted sales and training solutions. You and your directs will leverage your solid understanding of NLP techniques, including machine learning, text classification, and sentiment analysis.
Key Qualifications
Key Qualifications- 8+ years building NLP/AI software professionally and successfully releasing to customers; Leadership experience preferred
- Experience with data-driven digital transformation projects using AI/ML/NLP technology
- Industry and academic experience working on a range of AI problems
- Familiarity with state-of-the-art NLP algorithms and AI models
- Experience with NLP techniques such as entity extraction, dependency parsing, co-reference resolution, topic modeling, language modeling, text classification, transformer networks, and semantic extraction techniques
- Experience building and deploying AI models into a production cloud environment (AWS)
- Strong understanding of Python, and related machine learning tools (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch, NLTK, spaCy, Keras)
- Ability to share results with a non-technical audience and advancing multiple projects at once on a tight schedule
- Excellent presentation, written and verbal communication, engagement and interpersonal skills along with validated skills in building great design
In this role, you will focus on the following key areas:
- Leadership: Lead a team of engineers to build out the suite of AI and NLP products
- Content: Develop and implement NLP-based information extraction solutions; propose product features for assisted selling solutions that can be enabled through AI
- AI Models: Identify semantic similarity, information extraction, and topic identification (classification) to build models that generate responses specific to our customers based on their needs
- Implementation: Turn prototypes into automation pipelines and deploying them to production; deciding when to use out-of-the-box solutions vs. building custom solutions and utilizing both
- Refining: Ongoing data analysis to build new or fine-tune existing models such as GPT to optimize results
- Teamwork: Partner closely with software engineers to implement these models in our production environment to enable product features
- Communication: Communicate results of analyses to business partners and executives
- Innovation: Maintain expertise in the latest advancements in AI technology.
Education & Experience
Education & Experience- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Operations Research or related field; or
- Ph.D. in Math, Engineering, Economics, or hard science with data science fellowship; or
- M.S. in related field with 3+ years experience applying machine learning engineer to real business problems
Additional Requirements
Additional RequirementsPay & Benefits
Pay & Benefits- At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $196,000 and $299,000, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
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