Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer, Evaluation & Privacy

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Cupertino, CA
Salary
$184,700–$324,800 / yr
Posted
99 days ago
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Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

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TL;DR · Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer, Evaluation & Privacy

As a Senior machine learning platform engineer, Evaluation & Privacy, you will join the Privacy Preserving Machine Learning team to build and operate infrastructure supporting privacy-preserving machine learning training and evaluation. You will partner with engineers and scientists across various product teams to transition novel research prototypes into production-grade systems while maintaining high privacy standards. Your daily work involves designing and scaling distributed systems for private federated learning across millions of devices, as well as developing tools for privacy-preserving measurement. The role requires proficiency in Python and Swift, along with experience in distributed systems, device runtimes, and large-scale backends. You will specifically address the technical challenge of implementing privacy-enhancing technologies such as differential privacy, secure multi-party computation, and PII redaction frameworks to protect user data while enabling advanced machine learning capabilities across a diverse portfolio of products.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and operate platforms supporting privacy-preserving machine learning training and evaluation.
  • Develop private federated learning systems that run across millions of user devices.
  • Scale distributed training and evaluation infrastructure for a growing portfolio of products.
  • Transition novel privacy-preserving algorithms from research prototypes into production-grade systems.
  • Partner with product teams to ensure features meet Apple's high privacy standards.
  • Build software that runs on autonomous systems like the iPhone.
  • Manage large-scale distributed backends and device runtimes for machine learning capabilities.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related technical field.
  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field is preferred.
  • 2+ years of industry experience.
  • 5+ years of industry experience is preferred.
  • Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python and Swift.
  • Experience building software for autonomous systems like iPhone that runs in the background or on a schedule.
  • Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
  • Experience with privacy-enhancing technologies, machine learning deployment, or federated learning is preferred.

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