Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Ad Platforms, Predictions/Personalization

At Apple, we work every single day to build products that enrich people's lives. Our Advertising Platforms group makes it possible for people around the world to easily access informative and visionary content on their devices while helping publishers and developers promote and monetize their work. Our technology and services power advertising in Apple News and Search Ads in App Store.

We are looking for an ambitious Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our Ad Platforms team, focusing on Predictions and Personalization. You will develop and apply advanced techniques and algorithms to improve our ad network, working in an Agile environment. Your responsibilities will include:

1. Developing and implementing new optimization and advertising algorithms
2. Understanding ad network behavior and detecting meaningful data patterns for user engagement modeling
3. Assuring data integrity and breadth
4. Measuring user, campaign, and app performance
5. Analyzing results of large-scale experiments
6. Applying advanced ML techniques for designing privacy mechanisms, encryption techniques, pricing/auction strategies, and ranking algorithms

You will work on Machine Learning models for an Advertising Platform with extreme scale requirements. The role requires expertise in machine learning, statistics, optimization, personalization, or information retrieval, as well as the ability to analyze impact on marketplace dynamics.

Key qualifications:

• MS/PhD in computer science or equivalent field with 4+ years of relevant experience
• Experience with Systems Software implementation of new algorithms and data engineering/analysis aspects of an ad network
• Proficiency with databases, SQL, Spark, and scripting languages
• Strong understanding of mathematics behind modern machine learning, linear algebra, and statistics
• Ability to propose, design, and analyze new algorithms to benefit the ad network
• Experience working with large, complex data sets

This is an excellent opportunity to work on cutting-edge machine learning applications in advertising while maintaining a strong focus on user privacy. Join Apple's innovative team and contribute to shaping the future of digital advertising.