In 2021, the Apple Spain workforce increased by 20%, surpassing 2,000 employees. Needing space for new employees and those it planned to add in 2022, the company decided last December Apple to open new offices in the central Paseo de Gracia in Barcelonaright in front of the huge Apple Store located on the corner of Plaza Catalunya.
These offices were to house Apple’s AIML (Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning) team, whose staff grew above the company average (50%) last year. to become the largest group of AI professionals in all of Western Europe…
…and, even so, it now has open 30 vacancies in Barcelona to reinforce it with new engineers. The company also seeks to cover other 10 vacancies in Madrid also related to the AIML. Let’s take a look at a summary description of these vacancies, available in more detail on this web page.
These Apple offers do not include salary information or work modality (on-site or remote)although Apple is generally maintaining a clear ‘return to office’ policy.
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Language Enginers for Siri (various languages)
Apple is looking for language engineers for its voice assistant who Design the user experience in Siri locales using machine learning, text processing and natural language processing.
There are several vacancies, depending on the language spoken by the candidate. Right now, they are looking for native profiles of Brazilian Portuguese, Mexican Spanish, Danish, French and German.
They must have:
- Familiarity with machine learning methods for classification, regression, or classification problems.
- Condition of native user of the language in question, as well as ‘cultural awareness’ of its use.
- A degree in computer science “or related field, or equivalent experience.”
- Experience in programming languages. Some of the offers ask for “experience in at least one of these languages: Swift, Objective-C, Go or Rust”, others for “proficiency in more than one programming language, such as Java, C++ or Objective-C”.
- Knowledge of distributed computing platforms and technologies such as AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, MapReduce or similar.
Annotation Analysts
A position of ‘annotation analyst’ for which they are looking for profiles with excellent command of English and a second language, with active listening skills “with the ability to understand verbal nuances” in the language associated with the position, “including variations between different provinces and territories“.
These languages (or dialects, as the case may be) may be the Flemish, Dutch, French (Belgian and Swiss), Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, German (Austrian, Swiss and German), Swiss Italian, Finnish and Hebrew.
In this case, the educational requirements are a little less specific (“bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience preferred”).
Senior Software Engineer, Siri and Language Technologies
This is one of Apple’s vacancies whose place of work will be Madrid and not Barcelona. His job will be to develop “solutions to deliver learning products for all languages supported by Siri.”
Key qualifications include:
- Solid experience in developing applications using languages such as NodeJS and Python.
- Experience with data services, creation of database schemas (SQL, NoSql) and databases such as PostgreSQL, MySql and Redis.
- Experience with REST APIs.
- Solid experience with CI/CD using containers and tools like TeamCity or Jenkins.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
- Experience with Agile Development methodologies.
Apple Media Products – Engineering Project Manager
“The Apple Media Products engineering team is one of the most exciting examples of Apple’s passion for blending art and technology. […] these people power the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books. […] Their program managers partner with engineers who create secure end-to-end solutions.”
The requirements speak of a “strong technical competence”, but does not require a specifically technological qualification. However, “management experience in machine learning programs is a plus.”
Apple Media Products – Computer Vision Research Engineer
Same team as the previous post, but looking a profile much more focused on computer sciencerequiring:
- Deep understanding of the fundamentals in relevant areas of Machine Learning and Deep Learning.
- Strong Python coding skills.
- Experience working with Deep Learning frameworks such as Pytorch and/or Tensorflow. Work experience in the analysis of complex problems and in the elaboration and construction of highly scalable, robust and efficient solutions.
- Excellent programming skills, knowledge of computational complexity, and knowledge of computer architecture.
- Proven track record of innovation in creating novel algorithms.
- Solid scientific and publishing track record.
Apple Media Products – Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer
- Experience working with big data and horizontally scalable solutions.
- Experience working with Knowledge Graphs and semantic web technologies.
- Experience working with NLP modelsas well as with Graph-Embeddings.
- Work experience in the analysis of complex problems and in the elaboration and construction of highly scalable, robust and efficient solutions.
- Excellent programming skills, knowledge of computational complexity, and knowledge of computer architecture.