Job Description

Summary

Posted: Mar 1, 2022
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number:200333473
At Apple, we work every single day to build products that enrich people’s lives. Our Advertising Platforms group makes it possible for people around the world to easily access informative and forward-thinking content on their devices while helping publishers and developers promote and monetize their work. Our technology and services power advertising in Apple News and Search Ads in App Store. Our platforms are highly-performant, deployed at scale, and setting new standards for enabling effective advertising while protecting user privacy. We are looking for a software engineer that will lead major efforts to improve the performance of our search / ad systems across global markets. The position involves developing a keen understanding of the ad network behavior; detecting meaningful data patterns; assuring the integrity and breadth of the data; measuring user, campaign and app performance; and analyzing the results of extremely large-scale experiments. The successful candidate will apply advanced ML techniques for improving search ranking, relevance, query processing, translation and pricing / auction strategies.

Key Qualifications

• Experience in developing data intensive systems, and a keen intuition for software architecture, algorithms, distributed systems and applied machine learning
• Practical understanding of the mathematics behind modern machine learning systems
• Experience in working closely with operational teams on deployment, management, and monitoring
• Experience with Systems Software implementation and in any of: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Statistics, Personalization, Recommender Systems, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing

Description

You will have the opportunity to work on a platform with extreme scale and performance requirements. You have excellent understanding of scalable architectures including operational concerns. You have the ability to be a great teammate under tight deadline constraints.

Education & Experience

BS/MS/PhD in computer science or equivalent with 5 to 15+ years of experience.

Additional Requirements

• Any of the following is a nice to have:
  • Experience with recommendation, personalization, ads, ranking, search, distributed systems, multilingual NLP
• Apple is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We also take affirmative action to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities. Apple will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation or that of other applicants.
• We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.