Staff Machine Learning Engineer - News, Books, and Stocks Team

Apple Inc.; Cary (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cary, NC seeks a Staff Machine Learning Engineer for the News, Books, and Stocks Team to design and ship ML-powered features across News, Books, and Stocks apps.

You’ll build scalable services, work with NLP, recommender systems, and search components, and collaborate with interdisciplinary partners. The role requires 5+ years shipping ML models, strong Python/Java skills, and experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow, with a path toward technical leadership within a creative,

Qualifications

• MS in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• At least 5 years of experience shipping machine learning models in products.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or related language plus PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Experience designing user-facing machine learning features with interdisciplinary partners.
• Experience with recommender systems.
• Experience with text-centric AI/ML (LLMs, document classification, search, etc.)
• Experience delivering high quality software at scale.
• Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with partner teams.
• Commitment to encouraging an open and inclusive work environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement state-of-the-art AI/ML that processes news, stocks, and books data to drive recommendations, power advanced search, and enable next-generation AI features.
• Develop datasets, design model architecture, and prompt, train, or fine-tune models.
• Partner with multi-functional teams at the intersection of technology and liberal arts to design and implement end-to-end machine learning enabled features.
• Drive application features from concept, model design, and development all the way to delivery.
• Lead highly cross-functional software projects.
• Be part of our thriving machine learning community at Apple.

Skills

Python

Java

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Recommender systems

Text-centric ML

Education

MS in ML/CS or related field

PhD in ML/CS or related field

Tools

NLP frameworks

Job description

Staff Machine Learning Engineer - News, Books, and Stocks Team

Cary, North Carolina, United States Software and Services

In a time where the news and book media landscapes are changing by the day, Apple News andApple Books stand as champions of quality content, expert curation, user privacy, and thejudicious 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 teammatesas 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 tackledifficult and complicated problems in the news, books, and stocks domains, including textextraction, named entity recognition, duplicate detection, search, ranking, and much more! As amember of our dynamic group, you’ll have the rare and rewarding opportunity to craft upcomingproducts that will delight and encourage millions of Apple’s customers every day!

Responsibilities

• Design and implement state-of-the-art AI/ML that processes news, stocks, and books data to drive recommendations, power advanced search, and enable next-generation AI features.
• Develop datasets, design model architecture, and prompt, train, or fine-tune models.
• Partner with multi-functional teams at the intersection of technology and liberal arts to design and implement end-to-end machine learning enabled features.
• Drive application features from concept, model design, and development all the way to delivery.
• Lead highly cross-functional software projects.
• Be part of our thriving machine learning community at Apple.

Minimum Qualifications

• MS in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related field. Alternatively, equivalent industry experience to an MS degree is acceptable.
• At least 5 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.
• Experience designing user-facing machine learning features with interdisciplinary partners.
• Experience with recommender systems.
• Experience with text-centric AI/ML (LLMs, document classification, search, etc.)
• Experience delivering high quality software at scale.
• Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with partner teams.
• Commitment to encouraging an open and inclusive work environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a technical leadership role.
• Ph.D. in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related field.

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