The Information Intelligence team at Apple is looking to revolutionize how hundreds of millions of people use their devices to get information, and the Search and Knowledge Quality Team is seeking to push the boundaries of knowledge question answering within Siri and other Apple products.
Requirements
- Excellent programming skills in mainstream programming languages such as C++, Python, Scala, and Go
- Experience working with large data sets and end-to-end pipelines, ideally using the Apache software stack (e.g. Spark)
- Working experience with natural language processing and machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, or JAX
- Experience with search and knowledge graph
- Experience with cloud-native deployment (e.g. Kubernetes)
- Experience with prompt engineering, fine-tuning, evaluating for large language models
- Experience with retrieval-augmented generation or generative AI technology
Responsibilities
- Designing and developing features for platforms that manage complex data structures
- Innovating and building products that delight users daily while significantly impacting how information is accessed and utilized across Apple's ecosystem
- Developing cutting-edge features for platforms involving large-scale data management, machine learning, and deep learning systems applied to graph data, web documents, and both semi-structured and unstructured data feeds
- Refining user search experiences, ensuring they are not only seamless but deeply satisfying in meeting users' information-seeking needs
- Collaborating with world-renowned experts in large-scale data management, machine learning systems, and knowledge extraction
- Focusing on question answering, assistant response ranking, summarization, and search technologies
- Handling petabytes of data and millions of queries per second
Other
- 15+ years industry experience
- BS in Computer Science or related field
- MS or Ph.D in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Data Science or a related field
- Good interpersonal skills and teamwork; demonstrated ability to connect and collaborate with others
- Passion for building phenomenal products and curiosity to learn
