Work for Appen

Professional Positions

Appen employs a team of highly qualified professionals in linguistics, computer science, engineering, marketing, project management and finance and accounting. Our people are energetic, creative, practical and results-oriented. Our values include dedication to our customers' needs, multiculturalism and workplace enjoyment. We are always interested in high achievers who can contribute in a team environment. If you would like to be considered for professional assignments in Appen, please email us at:

Linguist Network

Appen is always keen to establish contact with professional linguists who have undertaken a comprehensive linguistic study of their own language at university level. The company has occasional opportunities to out-source work and to this end it maintains a database of appropriately qualified people with specific languages and skills. If you would like to be on our database please complete the form below and submit your details. Apply now.

Casual Positions

Are you looking for some interesting work? Appen is always recruiting speakers of different languages and maintains a database of speakers of any language who would be interested to be involved in our projects. People who submit their names for work may choose whether the work times that Appen has available suits them. Apply now.

Participation in Data Collections

Appen collects samples of spoken and written language from native speakers of many languages in a variety of situations.

• Speech samples collected are cut into small speech segments, which are then pooled, digitised and used to train computers to recognise the segments to decode what a speaker is saying. For example, a recording in a car will collect speakers saying commands that will control the air-conditioning of a car. This speech data will then be used to train a system resident in a car that can act on the spoken command to turn on or turn off the air conditioning. The driver's hands remain on the wheel all the while.

• Writing samples are collected for a number of applications. Copies of texts that are translations from one language into another assist in training machine translation systems; handwriting samples collected are used to train computers to recognise handwriting, for example in facsimiles or writing tablets; written text such as email, word processed documents, blogs, etc., are used to train systems in parsing and decoding language in all the various ways people write.

In all of these data collections, the identity of the person is not required or retained. We need to gather data across different ages, genders and dialects to be sure that the systems that are built can recognise everyone regardless of age, gender or regional dialect. Apply now.