Search Engineer - AI/ML

Job description

At Apple, phenomenal ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there’s no telling what you could accomplish.

Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It’s Apple’s central nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here.

AI & Data Platforms (AiDP) is IS&T's engine for AI-powered innovation. The team brings together data, application development, and machine learning — including generative AI — along with data services and customer success functions, to help IS&T build solutions more efficiently and streamline the adoption and embedding of generative AI across Apple.
At Apple, code and functional quality is always at the forefront and one of the key measures of Success.

As part of the Applied Machine Learning team, you will be responsible for conceptualising, designing, implementing and running cutting edge solutions, leveraging best suited ML, AI and NLP techniques and contributing to building reusable platforms. Our group has a broad impact, so you can expect to be cross functional and see new wondrous and challenging use cases where modern day technologies can help solve real world problems.

We are looking for someone who has a proven track record in crafting and developing high quality enterprise software solutions. This position requires a hands on person, who is passionate about understanding the details of a problem, can think about different solutions and can advise a team by example when the time to implement comes.

We're looking for a self-starting, upbeat individual with excellent written and communication skills, hardworking person who is a great teammate, but not afraid to question assumptions and take initiative. If you feel this is you, we'd love to hear from you.
<h3>Minimum Qualifications</h3>Bachelor’s in Computer Science or equivalent experience

3+ years of experience in building and managing big-data platforms and programming experience in Java

<h3>Preferred Qualifications</h3>Working experience with search and information retrieval (Lucene, Solr, Elasticsearch, Milvus, Vespa)

Experience scaling distributed ML and AI systems to handle millions of concurrent requests is desirable

Experience with ML applications in cross domain contexts is a plus

Experience with public cloud (AWS/GCP)

Good understanding of AI/ML stack - GPUs, MLFlow, LLM models is a plus

Understanding of data modeling, data warehousing, and ETL concepts is a plus

Have created frameworks to deploy platforms in AWS/Azure/GCP

Ability to lead and mentor junior team members, provide technical guidance, and collaborate effectively with multi-functional teams to deliver complex projects

Commitment to staying updated with the latest advancements in machine learning and data science, and willingness to learn new tools and technologies as needed