Apple

Senior Data Scientist, Experimentation & Causal Inference

Apple • $150K — $180K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's or PhD in a quantitative field like Statistics or Data Science.
  • 5+ years of experience in designing and analyzing experiments.
  • Expertise in experimental design, causal inference, and statistical modeling.
  • Proficient in Python and/or R for data analysis.
  • Skilled in evaluating experiment validity issues.

Responsibilities

  • Own key components of the experimentation science ecosystem.
  • Define measurement frameworks and experiment methodologies.
  • Establish experimentation standards and causal methodologies.
  • Build experimentation intelligence systems for data insights.
  • Drive cross-experiment learning initiatives.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with cross-functional teams in product and engineering.
  • Access to emerging product paradigms and challenges.
  • Potential impact on organizational decision quality through scientific evidence.
  • Engagement in continuous learning and development of causal methodologies.
Full Job Description
As a Senior Data Scientist, Experimentation & Causal Inference, you will own key components of the experimentation science ecosystem. You will work across product, growth, engineering, data engineering, and strategic science teams to define measurement frameworks, experiment methodologies, statistical standards, and causal inference approaches that improve organizational decision quality.

This role extends well beyond traditional A/B testing. You will help establish experimentation standards, develop advanced causal methodologies, build experimentation intelligence systems, and drive cross-experiment learning initiatives. You will play a critical role in ensuring that experimentation generates reliable evidence, scalable insights, and reusable scientific knowledge.

This includes helping establish experimentation approaches for emerging product paradigms where user interactions, adaptive systems, and long-term outcomes introduce new measurement and causal inference challenges.

The ideal candidate possesses strong expertise in experimental design, causal inference, statistical modeling, and scientific reasoning. Experience with modern causal machine learning techniques, heterogeneous treatment effect estimation, meta-analysis, and experimentation intelligence systems is highly desirable.

Minimum Qualifications

Master's degree or higher in Statistics, Data Science, Biostatistics, Computer Science,Economics, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, or a related quantitative discipline.

5+ years of experience designing, analyzing, and interpreting large-scale experiments or causal analyses.

Deep expertise in experimental design, statistical inference, causal inference, power analysis, and measurement strategy.

Experience developing measurement plans, KPI frameworks, guardrails, success criteria, and experiment readiness processes.

Strong programming skills in Python and/or R.

Ability to evaluate experiment validity issues such as sample ratio mismatch, contamination, interference, instrumentation errors, metric sensitivity, and under powered designs.

Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex statistical concepts andcausal claims.

Preferred Qualifications

PhD in Statistics, Biostatistics, Economics, Computer Science, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, or a related quantitative discipline.

Experience with modern causal machine learning methods such as uplift modeling, causal forests, heterogeneous treatment effect estimation, Bayesian experimentation, double machine learning, or related methodologies.

Experience conducting meta-analysis, cross-experiment synthesis, transferability analysis, or experimentation intelligence programs.

Experience building experimentation standards, measurement governance, experimentation intelligence repositories, or causal learning systems at scale.

Experience evaluating machine learning systems, recommendation systems, adaptive products, or AI-powered experiences using experimentation and causal inference methodologies.

Publications or research contributions in venues such as KDD, CIKM, WWW, WSDM, ICML, NeurIPS, AISTATS, JSM, or related conferences and journals.

Experience operating in highly technical, research-driven, or large-scale product experimentation environments.

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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