AIML - Software Engineer, Search and Recommendation Platform

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, great ideas quickly become extraordinary user experiences.

Take on big challenges that create a positive impact for billions of people Are you passionate about building sophisticated product experiences with a world-class engineering and design team? Do you want to make Siri and Apple products smarter for our users? The Machine Learning Platform & Infrastructure teams are building groundbreaking technology for algorithmic search, machine learning, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence. The features we build are redefining how people use their computers and mobile devices to search and find what they are looking for. Siri's universal search engine powers search features across a variety of Apple products, including Siri, Spotlight, Safari, Messages and Lookup. As part of this group, you will work with one of the most exciting high performance computing environments, with petabytes of data, millions of queries per second, and have an opportunity to imagine and build products that delight our customers every single day.

Description

We are responsible for Search infrastructure engineering at Apple's AIML Team. We design and build infrastructure to support features that empower billions of Spotlight and Siri users. We own our pipelines and services, from conception, to design, to implementation, to deployment, to operations. As a result, each one of us takes our responsibilities seriously, while having a lot of fun building the best services at scale we can. We have numerous latency sensitive services, jobs and pipelines that solve problems within Search infrastructure engineering.

Join this team, and you'll have the opportunity to work with large scale systems with trillions of rows!

","responsibilities":"Be able to reason, influence stakeholders and drive the feature from inception to production launch that will help improve Siri and Search.

Work with data science, cross functional search teams & stakeholders to support new features, data requirements & easier experimentation

Build solutions & frameworks that help accelerate engineering velocity for the entire org & partner team across Apple.

Deliver artifacts, code with high quality

Develop highly optimized solutions for petabyte level scale with optimal costs.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with search infrastructure

Experience with cluster setup / management, monitoring and logging

Excellent interpersonal skills able to work independently as well as in a team

Minimum Qualifications

BS, MS, Ph.D. in a related field, or equivalent experience

Experience Machine learning

Expertise in large-scale information retrieval, high-volume data mining, and contemporary machine learning methodologies.

Strong coding skills

Strong background in computer science: algorithms and data structures

Experience with backend development, code performance tuning and testing

Experience with cloud services and Kubernetes

5+ years of experience leading and driving complex, ambiguous projects.

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