Staff Data Scientist

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Salary: $203,300–$305,600 / yr
Posted: 31 days ago

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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 969 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Staff Data Scientist

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As a Staff Data Scientist in the Corporate Functions team, you will lead the technical direction of AI-driven personalization across the Retail Online journey, partnering with engineers and business leaders to enhance customer experiences. Your responsibilities include architecting scalable data solutions, developing ML models for predictive analytics, and integrating LLMs into core workflows to mitigate bias and hallucinations. You will also drive feature evaluation, shape product roadmaps, and mentor junior data scientists while communicating complex findings to executive teams. The role requires expertise in statistical analysis, causal inference, and proficiency in Python or R, SQL, and Spark. Additionally, experience with LLMs, recommendation systems, and MLOps is preferred as you work on large-scale datasets to solve high-impact analytical problems and influence technical vision at the organizational level.

Skills

Python R SQL Spark LLMs CI/CD MLOps Kubernetes Feature Stores Causal Inference EconML GRF Causal Forests Recommendation Systems Streaming Data Batch Processing Data Lakes Synthetic Data Generation Prompt Engineering RAG Architectures

What you'll do

Design and execute robust observational and experimental studies to advance causal inference methodologies.
Develop AI-native automated solutions using advanced statistical and machine learning methods.
Drive the evaluation philosophy for product features and proactively shape the product roadmap with insights.
Architect scalable data solutions and AI pipelines to deliver exploratory analyses, reports, and insights.
Mentor junior data scientists and drive team-wide best practices in technical vision and methodology.

What we're looking for

Masters in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, ML, Physics, Engineering, CS or equivalent
5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist
Expert proficiency in statistical analysis, causal inference, and predictive modeling
Proficiency in SQL, Spark, Python, or R for data science tasks
Experience building solutions with LLMs and fine-tuning models
Excellent communication skills and product intuition

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