Sr. Machine Learning Engineer

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$181,100–$272,100 / yr
Posted
49 days ago

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This role $227k
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About Apple Inc

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

Apple Inc currently has 1723 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Sr. Machine Learning Engineer

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Answers, Knowledge and Information Team at Apple, you will play a pivotal role in developing next-generation machine learning solutions for Knowledge Q&A features such as Siri, Safari, and Spotlight. Your daily responsibilities include leveraging advanced ML techniques to understand user queries, retrieve and rank documents, and generate helpful answers while also focusing on internationalization and safety aspects. You will work with Go or other object-oriented languages alongside PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX for model training and deployment. The role requires a deep understanding of product requirements and the ability to translate them into actionable modeling and engineering tasks. Ideal candidates have experience in search ranking, relevance, recommendation systems, and information retrieval, along with expertise in cloud-native deployment using Kubernetes and continuous integration tools like Jenkins.

What you'll do

  • Design and implement machine learning models using PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.
  • Translate product requirements into engineering tasks for ML model development.
  • Develop software in Go or other object-oriented languages for search platform features.
  • Improve real-time query understanding, document retrieval, and ranking systems.
  • Work on internationalization and safety aspects of machine learning solutions.

What we're looking for

  • 3+ years of software development experience
  • Proficiency in Go or another object-oriented programming language
  • Expertise in PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX for deep learning model training and deployment
  • Ability to translate product requirements into modeling and engineering tasks
  • BS degree in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Data Science, or related field

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