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It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it.\nWe are looking for an Evaluation Science Lead to define how our multilingual Globalization AI solutions are measured and validated across Apple Services - including Apple Music, App Store, Apple TV+, Apple Podcasts, and more. This is a rare opportunity to build evaluation science as a discipline at the intersection of language, culture, and AI, and to directly shape whether hundreds of millions of users around the world feel genuinely at home in Apple's products.\nDescription\nLanguage carries culture, nuance, and context - as Evaluation Science Lead, you will own the scientific rigor behind measuring how our AI-powered Globalization solutions perform across 50+ languages and dozens of markets. 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