Steven Baker

Steven Daniel Baker (born 1981) is a distinguished engineer at Apple who focuses on artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Education
Baker grew up in and attended the  in. He received a B.A. in computer science in 2003 from.

Career
Baker worked as an engineering intern for and  from 2001 to 2002 while attending Cornell.

Google
Baker joined Google in August 2003 as a software engineering intern in core search relevance. He eventually rose to become a principal software engineer in March 2011, and then a distinguished engineer in October 2014, specializing in algorithmic question answering.

Laserlike
Baker left Google with other fellow engineers in August 2015 to co-found Laserlike, where he became the chief science officer, working on the development of artificial intelligence (AI) to follow news topics. The startup raised 24 million and released a smartphone app for Android and iOS.

Apple
Baker joined Apple in November 2018 as a distinguished engineer in (NLP). Apple also acquired Laserlike by March 2019 and withdrew its mobile app from the market. According to Baker's profile as of March 2021, Apple is hiring.