Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Music Recommendation Engine

Here at Apple new ideas have a way of becoming great products very quickly, and innovation never stops. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. The Music ML team within Apple Services Engineering is responsible for personalisation and recommendation in Apple Music. We are looking for an experienced Software or Machine Learning Engineer to help design and run our customer-facing recommendation services reliably, efficiently, and with dedication to delivering relevant and diverse music to our users. Music is our passion, and our aim is to connect artists to music lovers like ourselves. We build amazing experiences for our users while respecting their privacy. Our team is a friendly bunch of people from more than 10 countries. We help each other grow and realise the best work for our users. We’re also part of a larger team at Apple Services Engineering and beyond. We work together to realise a single unified vision, making use of Apple’s unique integration of hardware, software, and services. And although services are a bigger part of Apple’s business than ever before, these teams remain small, nimble, and cross-functional, offering great opportunities to collaborate and grow.

Description

The Music ML team within Apple Services Engineering is looking for a great Software or Machine Learning Engineer to build and improve the features and services driving Apple Music personalisation.

Our team is responsible for providing personalised features for Apple Music including Home, New, Radio, and Personal Mixes. Our work includes data analysis, large-scale offline pipelines, machine-learned model training and inference, and online services to provide real-time personalised experiences. Our growing London-based team builds and evolves global-scale, leading-edge machine learning systems and distributed systems that serve recommendations to users around the world.

We are responsible for the full lifecycle: collaboration with the Product team, system design, implementation, continuous optimisation and improvement.

If this sounds exciting to you, we’d love to hear from you. Adding a cover letter to explain your passion for this particular job is greatly appreciated.

Minimum Qualifications

Hands-on experience engineering and maintaining large distributed backend systems
Hands-on experience with applied machine learning systems at production scale
Understanding of concurrency, algorithms and object oriented programming
Effective collaboration with researchers to improve machine learning models

Preferred Qualifications

A vision of how to engineer modern ML-driven pipelines, APIs and services at scale, with fast iteration cycles
Ability to own and lead projects from conception through to design and implementation
Experience with recommender systems, feature engineering
Experience designing and running customer-facing A/B tests