Senior ML Engineer, Navigation Experience

Socket.dev; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Maps is seeking an ML-focused engineer to lead initiatives transforming navigation into a natural, intuitive experience. You will work inside the guidance system, applying machine learning to personalize and contextualize journeys for hundreds of millions of users.

You will collaborate with design, routing, data science, and product teams to build, train, and deploy models for on-device and backend execution, with on-call duties as needed in a highly-scaled production environment.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, or related field with strong industry experience building large-scale, production-grade ML applications.
• Proven experience applying applied Machine Learning to solve complex, customer-facing technical problems (e.g., personalization, recommendation, contextual AI, or sequence modeling).
• Ability to write complex, highly-performant, clean, and maintainable solutions in C++.
• Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and software architecture.
• Strong problem-solving skills and comfort working with ambiguity, evolving requirements, and open-ended product questions.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, possessing the ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a distributed, multi-functional team environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead ML initiatives to transform the navigation experience across driving, cycling, walking, transit, and hiking.
• Collaborate with design, routing algorithms, data science, and product teams to deliver integrated experiences.
• Develop models and deploy on-device and backend systems with scalable pipelines.

Skills

Applied ML

C++

Algorithms & DS

Problem solving

Communication

Collaboration

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/ML/Math

Tools

Deep learning frameworks

Python tools

Spark

Kafka

Kubernetes

Linux/macOS development

Job description

Apple Maps is seeking an ML-focused engineer to lead initiatives transforming navigation into a natural, intuitive experience. You will work inside the guidance system, applying machine learning to personalize and contextualize journeys for hundreds of millions of users.

You will collaborate with design, routing, data science, and product teams to build, train, and deploy models for on-device and backend execution, with on-call duties as needed in a highly-scaled production environment.