Are you passionate about building scalable infrastructure, compute, and big data pipelines for modern search engines? Join the Apple Services Engineering AI/ML Search Platform team! We support multiple line of business teams responsible for Apple media product searches, including App Store, Music, TV, Podcasts, and Fitness+. As part of our mission, we’re upgrading our search platform to the next-generation large language model based engine, and enhancing thousands of compute and big data pipelines to ensure greater scalability and reliability.
Description
As a full stack ML engineer, you will help to upgrade to the next generation search engine, which powers all Apple media product searches, as well as recommendations, hints, and public developer APIs. Your work will ensure a seamless migration with zero impact on customer experiences. Additionally, you will contribute to enhancing the reliability of our large-scale compute and data pipelines by developing new generic data validation and quality gating framework. In this role, you will have the opportunity to learn the full stack of modern search engine, including both online serving and offline data processing. You will collaborate with both ASE AI/ML engineering and science line of business teams to upgrade to the next generation search engine, and onboard them to the new data validation and quality gating framework, which will improve data pipeline quality, reduce compute and storage costs, and minimize future migration engineering efforts.
Minimum Qualifications
- Relevant experience as a software engineer
- Proficient in Java, Go, Scala, C++ or other object-oriented programming language
- Understanding of information retrieval fundamentals including indexing, recall, ranking, etc.
- Passion
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience on Solr
- Experience on big data pipelines with Hadoop, Java, Scala and Spark
- Knowledge of ML Transformer models and Large Language Models
- Knowledge of semantic search and ANN algorithms
Additional Requirements
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $197,400 and $296,300, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.
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