Senior ML Scientist, Ad Campaign Optimization

Apple Inc.; Cupertino, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock programs

Relocation assistance

Education reimbursement

Medical and dental coverage

Employee discounts

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Scientist to design scalable models for ad campaign optimization across Apple Ads. You will build production-grade systems to optimize budgets and bids, delivering high-quality ad experiences at global scale.

You will collaborate with product, data science, and engineering teams to push state-of-the-art techniques, ensure privacy, and drive performance improvements for advertisers and users alike.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building machine learning and quantitative optimization capabilities across many different product areas at scale.
• Experience in machine learning, quantitative methods, control systems, or reinforcement learning.
• Ability to apply and implement research concepts, ultimately in production quality code.
• Experience defining clear, testable research hypotheses, including intended impact on the business.
• Deep knowledge of design of experiments, online experimentation approaches, preferably at scale.
• Ability to formulate and advocate for R&D objectives and results to cross-functional team members including executive business leadership and product management.
• Experience contributing and/or reviewing research for top conferences and publications.
• Deep fluency in Java or Python.
• Experience with Spark, Hadoop or other distributed frameworks.
• Masters in Machine Learning, Statistics, Control Theory, Forecasting, Optimization or related field with experience building production systems or have equivalent experience working with large data science / machine learning projects in industry.

Responsibilities

• You will develop models and systems that improve our platform across the board, develop production code to generate high quality ad recommendations and work closely with business partners to help drive the development of new products as well as perform large scale and complex experiments to understand their effects.
• You will drive strategic outcomes through substantial innovation in multiple fields by leading the development and application of advanced techniques and algorithms to improve our ad network.
• You have, or will develop a deep understanding of the ad network behavior, and will work with product management and business leadership to prioritize an innovation roadmap across multiple technical domains.
• You will lead the conception, development, and delivery of state of the art capabilities that differentiate our products and are core to our business.
• You will work with a variety of cross functional business partners to set strategy and bring end-to-end solutions that scale as we grown.

Skills

Machine learning

Quantitative optimization

Reinforcement learning

Production-ready code

Experiment design

Java

Python

Spark

Hadoop

Education

Master's in ML/Statistics/Control Theory/Forecasting/Optimization

PhD in ML/Statistics/Control Theory/Forecasting/Optimization

Tools

Spark

Hadoop

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cupertino is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Scientist to design scalable models for ad campaign optimization across Apple Ads. You will build production-grade systems to optimize budgets and bids, delivering high-quality ad experiences at global scale.

You will collaborate with product, data science, and engineering teams to push state-of-the-art techniques, ensure privacy, and drive performance improvements for advertisers and users alike.