Job Description

Summary

Posted: 23May 2022
Role Number:200381607
The Apple Media Products Engineering team is one of the mostexciting examples of Apple’s long-held passion for combining artand technology. These are the people who power the App Store, AppleTV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books. And they do it ona massive scale, meeting Apple’s high expectations with highperformance to deliver a huge variety of entertainment in over 35languages to more than 150 countries. These engineers build secure,end-to-end solutions. They develop the custom software used toprocess all the creative work, the tools that providers use todeliver that media, all the server-side systems, and the APIs formany Apple services. Thanks to Apple’s unique integration ofhardware, software, and services, engineers here partner to getbehind a single unified vision. That vision always includes a deepcommitment to strengthening Apple’s privacy policy, one of Apple’score values. Although services are a bigger part of Apple’sbusiness than ever before, these teams remain small, nimble, andcross-functional, offering greater exposure to the array ofopportunities here.

KeyQualifications

KeyQualifications

• Deep understanding of the search andinformation retrieval fundamentals including indexing, queryunderstanding, retrieval and ranking
• Strong Industrial experience with one ormore of the following: search, classification, regression,recommendation systems, targeting systems, ranking systems, frauddetection, online advertising, or related
• 10+ years of relevant industryexperience
• Experience with Learning to Rankalgorithms
• Experience building big data pipelineswith Hadoop, Java, Scala, and Spark
• Familiarity with A/B experimentation anddata/metric-driven product development
• Passion. Our customers love what we do atApple and we want the same from our engineers

Description

Description
We’re a diverse collective of thinkers and doers, continuallyreimagining what’s possible to help us all find what we love in newways. Our engineers have created some tough acts to follow, andthey continue to lead us to innovative breakthroughs. Becausethey’re driven not by what would be easy, but by what would beamazing. The AMP Search team powers search for iTunes, App Store,Apple Music, Apple TV, Podcasts, Books and more on iOS, macOS,tvOS, watchOS, web browsers, 3rd party devices, and Windows. We arelooking for extraordinary researchers to help build next-generationsearch features for Apple's ground breaking devices and platforms.We are a key part of the Apple ecosystem! You Will - Think throughcomplex research problems, simplify where necessary, invent whenneeded, to drive a principled vision from thought to reality -Present key technical and novel research work in public forums -Have a major impact on the way people search & discover on Appledevices worldwide. - Be part of a team with strong expertise insoftware engineering, information retrieval, language processing,data mining, machine learning, scalable systems, and offlineparallel processing (Hadoop, Scala, Spark). - Be responsible forimproving search recall and ranking. - Use big data technology toevaluate and prioritize content discovery features. - Conduct ABTests to ensure we objectively measure improvements. - Ensuresuccessful deployment of features, code, data, and models toproduction. - Collaborate with other world-class engineers,researchers, and statisticians to ensure that features and modelsare functioning at or above expected performance levels. - Design &Implement solutions for automated unit and integration tests thatenable continuous integration and delivery - Support search on alldevices (macOS, iOS, tvOS, watchOS, Siri/HomePod, and more)globally in languages from Arabic to Russian and everything inbetween

Education & Experience

Education & Experience
MS in Computer Science or related discipline

Additional Requirements

Additional Requirements

• Apple is an equal opportunity employerthat is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmativeaction to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants withoutregard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, genderidentity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or otherlegally protected characteristics.
• We will ensure that individuals withdisabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participatein the job application or interview process, to perform essentialjob functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges ofemployment. Please contact us to request accommodation.