Apple

Senior Software Engineer, Navigation Experience Intelligence

Apple$150K — $180K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, or related field.
  • Experience building large-scale, production-grade ML applications.
  • Demonstrated use of applied Machine Learning in customer-facing problems.
  • Proficiency in C++ for developing complex solutions.
  • Strong understanding of algorithms and data structures.

Responsibilities

  • Lead initiatives to enhance nav experience using machine learning.
  • Collaborate with design, routing algorithms, and data science teams.
  • Develop and optimize ML models for seamless customer interaction.
  • Support production systems handling billions of requests daily.
  • Provide on-call support for critical project needs outside standard hours.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Opportunity to drive innovations in navigation technology.
  • Exposure to high-scale production systems.
  • Engagement with cutting-edge ML applications.
  • Support for professional development in ML and software engineering.
Full Job Description
Description

The Navigation Experience team is responsible for the end-to-end guidance experience across driving, cycling, walking, transit, and hiking.

As an ML-focused engineer on our team, you will spearhead new initiatives to transform navigation into an experience that feels natural, intuitive, and tailored to a user's unique context.You'll work deep inside our guidance system, applying machine learning to solve complex problems, making our app reason about a journey the way a knowledgeable local would.

This work is highly cross-functional: you will collaborate with multiple partners across design, routing algorithms, data science, and product to deliver seamless, integrated customer experiences. We have a modern development process, analyzing requirements, building and training models, implementing and experimenting iteratively, and optimizing solutions for on-device and backend execution. We support production systems serving billions of requests daily, so occasional support outside standard business hours may be required for on-call duties and critical project needs.

Minimum Qualifications

* BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, or related field, with strong industry experience building large-scale, production-grade ML applications.

* Proven experience applying applied Machine Learning to solve complex, customer-facing technical problems (e.g., personalization, recommendation, contextual AI, or sequence modeling).

Ability to write complex, highly-performant, clean, and maintainable solutions in C++.

Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and software architecture.

Strong problem-solving skills and comfort working with ambiguity, evolving requirements, and open-ended product questions.

Good interpersonal and communication skills, possessing the ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a distributed, multi-functional team environment.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with ML techniques applied to navigation, geospatial data, or time-series context.

Familiarity with privacy-preserving approaches to ML (such as federated learning or differential privacy) and data processing.

Experience with deep learning frameworks and writing Python tools for data exploration, prototyping, and pipeline development.

Familiarity with navigation use cases across different modalities (driving, transit, walking, cycling, hiking).

Experience with data pipelines, scalable data architectures, or cloud-native infrastructure (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes) for model training and deployment.

Familiarity with macOS or Linux development 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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Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
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$294.1 billion
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