Machine Learning Engineer Full-time

Summary
The people here at Apple don’t just build products – we craft the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that supports the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it.

The Global Business Intelligence team provides data services, analytics, reporting, and data science solutions to Apple’s business groups, including Retail, iTunes, Marketing, AppleCare, Operations, Finance, and Sales. These solutions are built on top of an end-to-end machine learning platform with sophisticated AI capabilities. We are looking for a competent, experienced, and driven machine learning engineer to define and build some of the best-in-class machine learning solutions and tools for Apple.

Key Qualifications
4+ years of ML engineering experience in feature engineering, model training, model serving, model monitoring and model refresh management

Experience developing AI/ML systems at scale in production or in high-impact research environments

Passionate about computer vision, natural language processing, especially in LLMs and Generative AI systems

Knowledge with the common frameworks and tools such as PyPorch or TensorFlow

Experience with transformer models such as BERT, GPT etc. and understanding of their underlying principles is a plus

Strong coding, analytical, software engineering skills, and familiarity with software engineering principles around testing, code reviews and deployment

Experience in handling performance, application and security log management

Applied knowledge of statistical data analysis, predictive modeling classification, Time Series techniques, sampling methods, multivariate analysis, hypothesis testing, and drift analysis.

Proficiency in programming languages and tools like Python, R, Git, Airflow, Notebooks.

Experience with data visualization tools like matplotlib, d3.js., Tableau would be a plus

Description
As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will work on building intelligent systems to democratize AI across a wide range of solutions within Apple. You will drive the development and deployment of innovative AI models and systems that directly impact the capabilities and performance of Apple’s products and services. You will implement robust, scalable ML infrastructure, including data storage, processing, and model serving components, to support seamless integration of AI/ML models into production environments. You will develop novel feature engineering, data augmentation, prompt engineering and fine-tuning frameworks that achieve optimal performance on specific tasks and domains. You will design and implement automated ML pipelines for data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, hyper-parameter tuning, and model evaluation, enabling rapid experimentation and iteration. You will also implement advanced model compression and optimization techniques to reduce the resource footprint of language models while preserving their performance.

Have continuous focus to Brainstorm and Design various POCs using AI/ML Services for new or existing enterprise problems.

YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO:
– Understand a business challenge

– Collaborate with business and other multi-functional teams

– Design a statistical or deep learning solution to find the needed answer to it.

– Develop it by yourself or guide another person to do it.

– Deliver the outcome into production, (v) Keep a good governance of your work.

There are meaningful opportunities for you deliver impactful influences to Apple.

Education & Experience
Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent experience