Localization Engineer

Apple•Cupertino, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn’t have imagined, and now, can’t imagine living without. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA.

Requirements

5 years of experience in the job offered or a related field.
Fluent in reading, writing, and speaking in Hebrew language.
Utilizing Computer-Aided Translation (CAT) tools to perform translations and other linguistic tasks.
Translating large volumes of technical content for end-user software products.
Translating for specific product types including Information Technology products.
Compiling terminology and creating and maintaining language style guides and glossaries.
Analyzing software User Interface and source strings to assess localizability into Hebrew and Right-to-Left languages.
Providing feedback related to the Hebrew language, the Israeli culture, and the user experience for the Israeli market.
Performing Post-Editing and amending Machine-Translated descriptive texts for products (MTPE).
Conducting Machine Translation Quality Assurance (MTQA) and assessing translation quality.

Responsibilities

Deliver high-quality English-to-Hebrew translations with tight delivery schedules, using internal localization tools, including resolving linguistic bugs and polishing terminology and style to ensure a consistent user experience in Hebrew.
Proofread and edit translations provided by vendors.
Conduct linguistic quality assessments of Machine-Translated (MT) content.
Perform linguistic Post-Editing of Machine-Translated text for products (MTPE).
Compile terminology, create, and maintain language style guides and glossaries for Hebrew.
Document the use of language reference material such as dictionaries, lexicons, and glossaries.
Provide feedback related to the Hebrew language, Israeli culture, and user experience for the Israeli market.
Analyze user interface and software strings to communicate translation requirements and best practices for Right-to-Left (RTL) localization-friendly content to development teams.
Explain linguistic specificities to cross-functional teams.
Define and drive quality improvements for our Hebrew localizations, ensuring terminology consistency across our Apple products and services.
Suggest improvements for our localization toolset.
Interact with language experts in other localization teams, as well as Quality Assurance (QA) teams, and gain valuable insights into the development process at Apple.