Staff Machine Learning Engineer (ML Platform - ML Development)

At Apple, we work every day to create products that enrich people's lives. Apple Ads makes it possible for people around the world to easily access informative and imaginative content on their devices while helping publishers and developers promote and monetize their work. Today, our technology and services power advertising in Search Ads, App Store, and Apple News. Our platforms are highly-performant, deployed at scale, and setting new standards for enabling effective advertising while protecting user privacy. \\n\\nThe Machine Learning Platform team's mission is to empower teams at Apple Ads to build and scale the innovative ML systems that deliver highly optimized advertising content to consumers. Are you a results-oriented and versatile engineer who can excel in an Agile environment? You will work closely with engineers and data scientists to design, develop, and build world-class platform capabilities that will enable Apple Ads teams to improve and scale our ML features, models, and applications. \\n

The ML Platform team is responsible for bringing numerous features to advertisers and consumers while simultaneously supporting scalable modeling and continuous experimentation by all Apple Ads teams. As a key contributor to this team, you will design and develop secure and scalable back-end systems. You will enjoy building high-performing, elegant machine learning systems from the ground up, in close partnerships with various teams. You will also possess keen judgment in selecting technologies and building the right solution for the interesting challenges we get to tackle here. You will have the opportunity to define and refine architectures to meet the unique ad network challenges we must solve. You will play a meaningful role building machine learning products which deliver on Apple's privacy commitments and change the way advertising works with data. \n\nJoin us and contribute to a culture that emphasizes reliability, simplicity, and scalability. You will join a team of world-class machine learning engineers hungry to apply leading-edge technologies to deliver extraordinary experiences to our customers. We are one team, nurturing each other's growth and supporting each other in delivering for our customers!

Experience building shared ML platforms, frameworks or services used by multiple teams or organizations.\nDeep understanding of the ML lifecycle, including training pipelines, evaluation methodologies, and deployment patterns.\nDeep understanding of deep learning architectures (Transformers, LLMs, DNNs) and training frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) \nPrior experience applying ML at scale in Ads, recommender systems, or related domains.\nPrior experience in privacy-preserving ML, distributed training at scale and techniques like model pruning, compression, quantization & distillation preferred.\nExperience building AI/ML tooling and/or infrastructure at scale preferred\nAbility to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical multi-functional teams\nResults oriented with strong technical leadership skills and a desire to work in a fast-paced collaborative work environment

Education & Experience\nPhD/MS/BS in Computer Science or related field with 10+ years of industry experience in building large-scale distributed software systems