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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Apple
Full-time
On-site
New York City, New York, United States
Software Engineer
The ML Platform team is responsible for bringing numerous features to advertisers and consumers while simultaneously supporting scalable modeling and continuous experimentation by all Ads teams. As a key contributor to this team, you will design and develop secure and scalable back-end systems. You will enjoy building high-performing, elegant systems from the ground up, in close partnerships with various teams. You will also possess keen judgment in selecting technologies and building the right solution for the interesting challenges we get to tackle here. You will have the opportunity to define and refine architectures to meet the unique ad network challenges we must solve. You will play a meaningful role building machine learning products which deliver on Apple's privacy commitments and change the way advertising works with data. Join us and contribute to a culture that emphasizes reliability, simplicity, and scalability. You will join a team of world-class machine learning engineers hungry to apply leading-edge technologies to deliver extraordinary experiences to our customers. We are one team, nurturing each other’s growth and supporting each other in delivering for our customers!


  • 7+ years experience in building machine learning models.
  • Experience building machine learning models
  • Familiarity with the model development lifecycle
  • Familiarity with machine learning libraries and frameworks
  • Experience writing machine learning applications and mission-critical code for production machine learning systems
  • Experience building and scaling cloud-based architectures
  • Experience building AI/ML tooling and/or infrastructure
  • Experience working on distributed systems where scalability and performance are critical
  • Prior experience in performance tuning & trouble-shooting
  • Pride in building tools to automate routine tasks, organized & detailed
  • Understanding of software engineering principles for maintainable code development


  • Familiarity with CI/CD tooling
  • Strong problem solving and debugging skills
  • Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical multi-functional teams
  • Results oriented with a desire to work in a fast-paced and collaborative work environment
  • Prior experience in advertising industry is a huge plus