About the role

What will you do at Apple?

In a time where the news and book media landscapes are changing by the day,

Apple News and Apple Books stand as champions of quality content, expert

curation, user privacy, and the judicious use of machine learning. Our lively

and brilliant distributed team consists of client and machine learning engineers

who embody Apple's values. We inspire, teach, and otherwise enable each other to

do the best work of our careers! Our team's outstanding retention rate speaks to

our strong culture of respect for our teammates as both engineers and people.

Would you like to work on such a team, solving hard problems in machine

learning? Terrific! Please join us for the next generation of these apps!

DESCRIPTION

Our team is seeking a high-energy and self-driven machine learning engineer who

will play a central role in the delivery of scalable services. The team uses

machine learning to tackle difficult and complicated problems in the news,

books, and stocks domains, including text extraction, named entity recognition,

duplicate detection, search, ranking, and much more! As a member of our dynamic

group, you’ll have the rare and rewarding opportunity to craft upcoming products

that will delight and encourage millions of Apple’s customers every day!

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

MS in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related field. Alternatively,

equivalent industry experience to an MS degree is acceptable. At least 2 years

of experience shipping machine learning models in products. Strong programming

skills in Python, Java, or a related language, and one of the deep learning

toolkits such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar. Ability to communicate

effectively and collaborate with partner teams. Commitment to encouraging an

open and inclusive work environment.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Ph.D. in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related field. At least 5 years

of experience shipping machine learning models in products. Experience with

recommender systems. Experience with text-centric AI/ML (LLMs, document

classification, search, etc.) Experience delivering high quality software at

scale. Experience designing user-facing machine learning features with

interdisciplinary partners.

Which skills does this role require?

PythonJavaPyTorchTensorFlowText ExtractionNamed Entity RecognitionDuplicate DetectionRankingDocument ClassificationScalable ServicesSoftware EngineeringApple NewsApple BooksArtificial IntelligenceData Science

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