Machine Learning Architect, Creativity Apps Full-time

Summary
At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly! The Creativity Apps team needs your help shaping the next generation of creative editing tools by working on pioneering technologies to surprise and delight creative pros and enthusiasts alike. You’ll be working with the world-class teams behind Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, iMovie, and GarageBand to create next-generation tools for creators. You’ll have the opportunity to work with our world class creatives, designers, and engineers to help innovate in the creative space in ways that only Apple can. This is a highly visible, highly impactful opportunity!

Key Qualifications
Experience in identifying and delivering state-of-the-art solutions for creatives

Ability to inspire and align efforts across the company towards delivering on creative needs

Recognized innovator in the creative space

Extensive knowledge in machine learning and deep learning techniques

Experience delivering products in Computer Vision, Computational Photography, multimodal-LLMs/Foundation models, Generative AI, Machine Learning (ML), or related areas

Experience in building end-to-end ML pipelines from data ingestion to feature engineering to model training to deploying and scaling the model in production

Experience in model training, model optimization, ML system architecture design, and scalable ML model deployment

Experience delivering high quality software at scale

Experience as a technical lead; demonstrating strong communication, collaboration, and project management skills

Willing to take responsibility and ownership of features and drive key architectural decisions

Committed to encouraging an open and inclusive work environment

Ability to communicate effectively, collaborate, and build long-term relationships across the organization

Ability and desire to mentor others in achieving engineering excellence and to be a catalyst on the team.

Description
Are you ready to be one of the founding members of a new engineering team focused on building state-of-the-art creative editing tools? You will take ownership around identifying the technical direction and innovation in key product areas. You will be responsible for identifying our technical investments to power the next-generation tools for creators. This is a highly collaborative role with the opportunity to evolve in many directions.

Education & Experience
PhD in computer vision, machine learning, computational photography or related areas; alternatively a comparable industry career, with significant experiences on delivering products using state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning technologies.