Machine Learning Data Scientist - Semantics, Apple Ads

At Apple, we focus deeply on our customers' experience. Apple Ads brings this same approach to advertising, helping people find exactly what they're looking for and helping advertisers grow their businesses! Our technology powers ads and sponsorships across Apple Services, including the App Store, Apple News, and MLS Season Pass. Everything we do is designed for trust, connection, and impact: We respect user privacy, integrate advertising thoughtfully into the experience, and deliver value for advertisers of all sizes-from small app developers to big, global brands. Because when advertising is done right, it benefits everyone!

Description

The role requires experience in development, fine-tuning, evaluation, and application of large language models (LLMs) to solve complex natural language processing tasks. The ideal candidate will have working experience in machine learning, data engineering, and prompt design to build scalable, intelligent systems that can understand, generate, and reason with human language. Experience in areas such as predictive modeling (classification and regression), optimization, industrial engineering, demand forecasting, and time-series forecasting is a plus. Deep understanding and ability to compare predictive models, evaluate their strengths and weaknesses in a particular context, and interpret and explain model results to a broad group of technical and non-technical stakeholders are also a plus. Driven candidates will work across use cases such as summarization, classification, knowledge extraction, and prediction, often partnering with product, and engineering, bring LLM-powered solutions into production.

Minimum Qualifications

• 1+ years of professional work experience in Data Science.
• Command over Python and common ML/NLP libraries as well as SQL.
• Comfort with cloud technologies such as AWS and Snowflake.
• Experience with Big Data tools such as Hadoop, Spark and PySpark.
• Experience in applying NLP/LLM to real-world problems plus experience in quantitative analysis including regression, classification, linear optimization, supply chain analytics, and time-series analyses.
• Ability to communicate the results of analyses in a clear and effective manner with product and leadership teams to influence the overall strategy of the product.
• Ability to partner with engineering, meet the data needs of the business, find creative analytical solutions, and develop initial prototypes to address business problems.
• Experience with end-to-end implementation of a model prototype specifically training, processing, feature engineering, evaluating model outputs, and putting models into production.
• Bachelor's or equivalent experience in computer science, mathematics, or another quantitative field.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional work experience in Data Science.
• Experience in the digital advertising industry or a related field and/or experience with demand forecasting.
• Willingness to learn, both technically and in the domain of the data.
• Familiarity with packages like numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, and prophet
• Familiarity with job orchestration frameworks like git, Airflow, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins.
• Masters' degree, Ph.D. or equivalent experience in a quantitative field.

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Client-provided location(s): Austin, TX

Job ID: apple-200601261-0157

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-08-13T19:14:09