AIML - Senior Data Scientist, Evaluation
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. The AIML Evaluation org works with teams across Apple to build platforms, create methodologies, and enable partners to measure, understand, and proactively improve their products. We are looking for an outstanding candidate to become a member of the Evaluation team to help own and drive part of our technical portfolio for Apple Intelligence. Our work ensures that Apple systems maintain the highest standards for data quality and user privacy compliance.
Description
As a Sr. Data Scientist on the AIML Evaluation team, you will be a technical leader responsible for ensuring data quality and privacy compliance across Apple Intelligence, Siri, and other critical products. You will design monitoring systems that validate data meets Apple's rigorous privacy standards while enabling teams to measure and improve product quality at scale. This role requires both analytical rigor and robust engineering skills. Successful candidates will need to have a passion for user privacy and superb communication skills with an ability to influence at all levels of the organization, from junior engineers to Sr. Directors and SVPs. Creative problem solving, analytical, and deductive reasoning skills are critical for this position. You should be comfortable with ambiguity and a complex cross-functional environment, requiring relentless collaboration and laser focus on outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Partner with product, data science, and engineering teams to define data quality metrics and contribute to privacy-compliant logging design.
- Build production data pipelines with automated quality validation, compliance checks, and alerting systems to ensure data integrity across development and production environments.
- Investigate, diagnose, and measure impact of data quality and compliance issues, recommend remediation strategies, and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Minimum Qualifications
- 7+ years of industry experience in Data Science, Data Engineering, or Data Analytics
- Experience leading strategic technical projects with multiple stakeholders and directing work of other engineers and/or data scientists or as a technical lead
- Strong collaboration, communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
- Ability to solve complex problems independently
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL, with experience in data manipulation, processing, and analytics pipelines
- Demonstrated commitment to user privacy and understanding of data privacy principles
- Experience designing or implementing privacy-preserving data practices, compliance monitoring, or data governance systems
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Preferred Qualifications
- Master's in a technical or quantitative field such as Statistics, Biostatistics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Operations Research, Mathematics or 10+ years of industry experience with demonstrated technical leadership
- Experience with analytic design and logging frameworks
Pay & Benefits
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 $181,100 and $318,400, 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.
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