Senior ML Platform Engineer at Apple in Cupertino, California

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Summary Posted: Aug 2, 2022 Weekly Hours: 40 Role Number:200361303 Apple Maps empowers people to explore and navigate their world. We solve large-scale problems while delivering appealing, intuitive, and innovative experiences. We obsess over the details to bring the world's complexity to life. As the most popular mapping application on iOS, we are delivering the future of maps to hundreds of millions of customers across Apple's entire ecosystem. We sit at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts, combining state-of-the-art software and hardware with human curation to create a product that celebrates the best of what Apple has to offer. We are looking for an outstanding Software Engineer to help build the next generation of ML Platforms for Apple Maps. Your Responsibilities will include: Enhance our data centric MLOps platform that facilitates the continuous running of ML lifecycle: data cleansing and enrichment, feature engineering, model training/evaluation/AB testing/serving. Leverage distributed ML framework to expedite the training of deep neural network models on search relevance and ranking. Build up high performance and scalable ML model serving systems on hybrid could environment. Strike a balance between prediction accuracy and serving latency using knowledge distillation; Close the model serving performance gap between GPU and CPU. Key Qualifications Demonstrated ability of defining and driving complex initiatives across multiple cross functional teams. Expertise in at least two of the following fields: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, Search, Recommendation Hands on experience in architecting and developing distributed, large scale, high throughput, low latency REST/gRPC web services. Expertise in one or more modern programming languages, such as Java, Python and C++. Exceptional interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills. Description The goal of Maps Search team is to take Apple's Maps to the next level of intelligence and accuracy using advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques. As an architect in this team, you will be contributing to both the search platform and product. You will have opportunities to innovate on the Search platform/infrastructure to build elegant solutions in distributed systems. You will be working with an extraordinary team of engineers and scientists to architect scalable tools and platform foundations that enable other engineers and scientists to improve search relevance and system performance. You will also be working with data, eval, and SRE team to build solutions that work seamlessly across the entire Apple ecosystem. You will participate in design and code reviews and work with engineers and QA to deliver high quality search experience to our customers. Education & Experience BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience, MS/PhD preferred. Additional Requirements 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience at IC level. PDN-967932c2-7f0d-4c75-897c-9063b3ad3204