Apple

Staff ML Engineer - Ads ML Infrastructure

Apple$140K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in machine learning and software engineering, with a proven track record of designing and operating low-latency systems.
  • Hands-on expertise in model quantization and inference optimization techniques, such as ONNX Runtime and TensorRT.
  • Experience with distributed systems to support scalable inference workloads.
  • Proficiency in designing GPU kernels for enhanced hardware utilization in deep learning tasks.
  • Familiarity with the advertising industry and privacy-preserving ML techniques.
  • Recognized technical leader with mentoring experience in code and design reviews.
  • Skilled in performance tuning and troubleshooting of ML systems.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop secure, scalable back-end systems for machine learning platforms.
  • Collaborate with engineers and data scientists to enhance ML features and applications.
  • Define and refine architectures addressing unique advertising challenges.
  • Build high-performing systems from the ground up.
  • Support continuous experimentation and scalable modeling across teams.
  • Create abstractions and automation tools to enhance developer experience and streamline workflows.
  • Promote a culture of reliability, simplicity, and scalability within the team.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on innovative ML applications that prioritize user privacy.
  • Collaborative team environment focused on personal growth and support.
  • Engagement with leading-edge technologies in machine learning.
  • Ability to influence architectures that significantly impact advertising practices.
Full Job Description
The Machine Learning Platform team's mission is to empower Ad Platforms teams to build and scale the innovative ML systems that deliver highly optimized advertising content to consumers. Are you a results-oriented and versatile engineer who can excel in an Agile environment? You will work closely with engineers and data scientists to design, develop, and build world-class platform capabilities that will enable Ad Platforms teams to improve and scale our ML features, models, and applications.

Description

The ML Platform team is responsible for bringing numerous features to advertisers and consumers while simultaneously supporting scalable modeling and continuous experimentation by all Ad Platforms teams. As a key contributor to this team, you will design and develop secure and scalable back-end systems. You will enjoy building high-performing, elegant systems from the ground up, in close partnerships with various teams. You will also possess keen judgment in selecting technologies and building the right solution for the interesting challenges we get to tackle here. You will have the opportunity to define and refine architectures to meet the unique ad network challenges we must solve. You will play a meaningful role building machine learning products which deliver on Apple's privacy commitments and change the way advertising works with data.

Join us and contribute to a culture that emphasizes reliability, simplicity, and scalability. You will join a team of world-class machine learning engineers hungry to apply leading-edge technologies to deliver extraordinary experiences to our customers. We are one team, nurturing each other's growth and supporting each other in delivering for our customers!

Minimum Qualifications

Proven track record of designing and operating large-scale, low-latency ML Serving platform supporting real-time and batch inference.

Experience of model quantization, tensor parallelism, and inference optimizations (e.g ONNX Runtime, TensorRT, vLLM). Actively led evaluation and adoption of such technologies.

Experience working on distributed systems (e.g Ray, high-throughput RPC systems) to support scalable inference workloads and hybrid online/offline serving patterns.

Hands-on experience designing and optimizing low-level GPU kernels to maximize hardware utilization, bypass memory bandwidth bottlenecks, and accelerate deep learning primitives.

Prior experience in advertising industry, federated learning and privacy-preserving ML techniques.

Recognized as a technical leader and mentor, supports the growth of engineers through code/design reviews, working groups, and internal knowledge sharing.

Led development of foundational AI/ML platforms and tooling including Feature Stores, Vector DB to accelerate team productivity and model lifecycle management.

Experience performance tuning & trouble-shooting.

Passionate about developer experience builds abstractions, automation tools, and reusable components to streamline ML workflows and reduce operational burden.

Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical multi-functional teams.

Results oriented with a desire to work in a fast-paced and collaborative work environment.

Preferred Qualifications

PhD, MS, or BS in computer science or a related field, with 8+ years of experience in machine learning and strong software engineering skills.

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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1976
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