Machine Learning Software Engineer

The Applied Machine Learning team has been at the forefront of accelerating digital transformation through machine learning across Apple's enterprise ecosystem. The proven ML Platforms, Solutions, and Services provide a comprehensive suite of capabilities to achieve efficiency, agility, and innovation at Apple scale—serving business-critical needs across Apple’s enterprise. 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.

Description

Embark on a transformative journey as a Software Engineer within Apple's Applied Machine Learning Team. You will assume a pivotal role in building and supporting the high-performance, scalable enterprise platforms that underpin our Search, Knowledge Graph, ML and inferencing systems. You shall be entrusted with the stewardship of ensuring unparalleled availability, optimal performance, and minimal latency for our high-throughput applications, thereby directly influencing and elevating the customer experience.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent.
Programming expertise in Java & either Information Retrieval or Generative AI
Excellent analytical & problem solving skills
8+ years of work experience
Proven skills in designing scalable, highly available distributed systems which can handle high data volumes.
Strong understanding of software engineering principles and fundamentals including data structures and algorithms.
Solid understanding of concurrency and multi-threading, multiple design patterns and debugging and analytical methodologies
Hands-on experience on Solr or OpenSearch or with relevance tuning of Search Results.

Preferred Qualifications

Exposure to Data processing and Model Training or FineTuning methodologies
Exposure to Performance tuning JVMs
Exposure to BigData processing systems
Meaningful Contributions to OpenSource Software