Machine Learning Technical Lead, Apple
Data Engineering - SIML, ISE
$175.8-264.2k
+ Discretionary employee stock programs
Office located in Cupertino, CA
Personal technology company
Job no longer available
Personal technology company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$175.8-264.2k
+ Discretionary employee stock programs
Office located in Cupertino, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
Apple's mission is to bring the best user experience to its customers through its innovative hardware, software, and services.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for an exceptional engineering lead who is passionate about Apple products and values; who loves working with data ops at scale; and who is committed to the hard work vital to continuously improve complex ML data pipelines and data infrastructure
- Bachelors, Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience
- 7+ years of industry experience as a software engineer, including 2+ years as a tech lead/architect specialized in data infrastructure
- Proven experience designing, automating and scaling large data pipelines (petabyte scale desired) using state of the art technologies
- Expertise in Python or another modern programming language
- Strong ability to design and lead a technical roadmap, work with cross functional teams and a diversity of profiles, proven capacity to influence and build alignment
Desirable
- Demonstrated prior experience in foundation models such as building data infrastructure supporting generative technologies
- Self-starter, able to handle ambiguity, identify risks, mitigate, and autonomously find the right people and tools to get the job done
- Proven track record of mentoring and growing engineers, lift the level of software engineering excellence in a ML data ops team typically focused on short term deliveries
What the job involves
- Our SIML Data team focuses on acquiring, synthesizing, annotating, and ensuring the quality of ML data, driving numerous features in collaboration with R&D teams in Apple’s SWE organization
- As a data engineering tech lead, you will be responsible for establishing and executing the strategy for our organization’s ML data engine
- Collaborate with a variety of partners, from infrastructure, ML research teams to our data functions, including data engineers, to assess the needs
- Identify state of the art data components used to store, expose and track ML data
- Identify opportunities for improvement of internal infrastructure offerings, and influence roadmaps of partner teams to build or improve key components we rely on
- Design and execute the roadmap for adoption of new components, build the pipelines necessary to connect data systems and teams
- Improve automation workflows, data visualization tools, ML enrichment, asset lineage tracking, including data coming from sophisticated synthetic workflows, data governance and compliance components, storage and tracking of synthetic data
- Be hands on, actively participate to the stack and implement high quality code
- Weekly Hours: 40
- We are the Data Team of the System Intelligence and Machine Learning (SIML) group at Apple. We build high quality ML datasets, from very small targeted sets to petabyte scale, to train and evaluate ML models that power AI-centric features for many Apple products
- Our datasets help power intelligent algorithms on Camera and the Photos app, improve text input experiences (autocorrect, autocompletion, OCR) and more recently feed generative technologies in Apple Intelligence (Image Playground, Genmoji, Writing Tools, Math Notes…)
Our take
With a market capitalisation that reached $3 trillion in 2022, Apple is the world's most valuable company. A vertically integrated approach and obsessive focus on the user experience have helped to make Apple one of the most successful companies in the world.
Since taking over at Apple, Tim Cook has been carefully curating the company's reputation as a champion of consumer privacy, trying to set the company apart from others that monetise their users' data.
The company even went as far as to introduce sweeping privacy changes which made it difficult to tailor ads to Apple’s 1bn+ iPhone users. This rocked the $400bn digital ads market, seriously harming the revenue of its bigger rivals in the lucrative industry and forcing them to rebuild their ad infrastructure.
Despite this, the company has been shaken by supply chain issues and moved a considerable amount of its manufacturing from China to India, and increased its Vietnam presence. This is because of multi-pronged production disruption in China, the second largest customer market for Apple, and triggered an estimated 10% revenue drop in the first quarter of 2023.
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Insights
204% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Everyone has different needs and schedules, and that’s why we offer medical plans that cover both physical and mental healthcare
- In addition, employees have the option to access medical professionals from almost anywhere and get free confidential counselling — virtual or in person
- You could also be eligible for help with fitness-related expenses
- Our medical coverage plans include family-friendly features such as fertility treatments
- Because we know there’s more than one way to bring a new child into your family, we support all kinds of new parents with paid leave and our gradual return-to-work programme
- You also get paid time away if you need to care for an ill family member and free guidance to help you find support for childcare, elderly care, legal referrals and more
- At Apple, we make sure women earn the same as men performing similar work. As part of that effort, your salary history is history — we won’t ask
- Every employee here also has the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder, because all are eligible for stock grants and also a discount when purchasing Apple stock
- To help you prepare for retirement, our pension can help you meet your savings goals. And to help you prepare for the unexpected, you’ll have the security of multiple forms of income protection
- Plan on developing both professionally and personally. Apple University creates classes, seminars and beyond-the-classroom tools that help employees understand Apple’s culture, organisation, values, and role in the world. You can sharpen general business and software skills through online classes
- For more formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, we’ll reimburse you for certain educational expenses, including tuition
- Whether you’re exploring personal pursuits, welcoming a new child or caring for a family member, rest assured that you’ll have paid time away when you need it most
- When you give money to an eligible organisation, we’ll match your donations one-for-one, so your contribution is doubled. And if you choose to donate your time, we’ll contribute US$25 for every hour you volunteer. Whether you donate time or money, Apple will match your contributions up to US$10,000 a year
- Get the world’s best prices on the world’s best products — Apple products. You’ll also get deals on great third-party accessories
- And there are services to help you manage life’s day-to-day tasks: dinner reservations, pet-sitters, shopping, personal travel, financial guidance and more
Company HQ
Cupertino, CA
Leadership
Tim Cook
(CEO, not founder)Joined Apple in 1998 and held various senior roles before being promoted to CEO in 2011. Previously Spent 12 years with IBM, most recently as director of North American Fulfilment, where he led manufacturing and distribution functions for IBM’s Personal Computer Company in North and Latin America
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