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The Sr. Machine Learning Engineer - Answers, Knowledge & Information (AKI) joins the Geo domain team to power search across various products including Siri, Spotlight, and Safari. This role involves owning the entire machine learning development cycle, from opportunity analysis and prototyping to data collection, feature engineering, training, and production deployment. You will lead the development of models to improve search quality across retrieval, ranking, reranking, and query understanding. Key techniques include learning-to-rank, embedding models, contrastive learning, multi-task learning, and reinforcement learning. The position requires expertise in natural language processing, information retrieval, and deep learning theory. You will solve the technical challenge of helping users find local businesses, places of interest, and addresses by using innovative machine learning techniques and large language models to understand queries and rank documents.
What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in California?
Median $235750 from 200 postings across 34 companies.
Own the entire ML development cycle from opportunity analysis and prototyping to production deployment.
Lead the development of machine learning models to improve search retrieval, ranking, and query understanding.
Apply techniques such as learning-to-rank, embedding models, and reinforcement learning to improve search quality.
Translate product requirements into specific modeling tasks and engineering requirements.
Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership in architecting ML systems.
Lead experimentation, offline evaluation, and online A/B testing for iterative search improvements.
What we're looking for
You have 5+ years of experience in information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, or deep learning.
You have a Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in machine learning or a related field.
You have a deep understanding of machine learning theory, including supervised learning, ranking models, embeddings, representation learning, and evaluation metrics.
You have proven ability to apply advanced ML techniques to improve search relevance and retrieval quality at scale.
You are comfortable leading experimentation, offline evaluation, and online A/B testing for iterative improvements in search quality.
You have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work independently as well as as part of a team.
Advanced diploma in AI, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or Mathematics (preferred).
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