Senior ML Research Engineer – Apple Services Engineering – Search Science

Senior ML Research Engineer – Apple Services Engineering – Search Science

Requirements

• Deep understanding of search and information retrieval fundamentals including indexing, query understanding, retrieval and ranking
• Strong industry experience with one or more of the following: search, classification, regression, recommendation systems, ranking systems, fraud detection, online advertising, or related
• 4+ years of relevant industry experience
• Knowledge of ML models using Transformers, Large Language Models, Reinforcement Learning, TensorFlow, and PyTorch

Responsibilities

• Think through complex research problems, simplify where necessary, invent when needed, to drive a principled vision from thought to reality
• Present key technical and novel research work in public forums
• Have a major impact on the way people search & discover on Apple devices worldwide
• Experience developing complex components in large scale distributed systems using high-performance programming languages (C++/Go/Rust/etc)
• Be responsible for improving search recall and ranking
• Use big data technology to evaluate and prioritize content discovery features
• Conduct AB Tests to ensure we objectively measure improvements
• Ensure successful deployment of features, code, data, and models to production
• Collaborate with other world-class engineers, researchers, and statisticians to ensure that features and models are functioning at or above expected performance levels
• Design & Implement solutions for automated unit and integration tests that enable continuous integration and delivery
• Support search on all devices (macOS, iOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, Siri/HomePod, and more) globally in languages from Arabic to Russian and everything in between.

Preferred Qualifications

• Passion. Our customers love what we do at Apple and we want the same from our engineers