At Apple, the business problem is to create products that enrich people’s lives by enabling users worldwide to discover new content seamlessly while empowering publishers and developers to promote and monetize their work through advertising in the App Store and Apple News.
Requirements
- 7+ years applying and leading teams that apply advanced statistical/ML methods and work with large, complex data sets
- Experience in some of the following domains: Algorithms, Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Database Systems, Data Mining, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Networking, Statistics, Game Theory, Auction Design, or other experience with rigorous Quantitative Analysis or Systems Software implementation
- Practical understanding of the mathematics behind modern machine learning, linear algebra and statistics
- You have experience developing and leading teams who develop in Python or Java
- You are familiar with databases, SQL, and scripting languages
- 10+ years applying and leading teams that apply advanced statistical/ML methods and work with large, complex data sets
- PhD in AI/ML/Mathematics/CS or related field
Responsibilities
- You'll lead our prediction teams where you will be responsible for creating models to understand our user responses to ads
- You'll work across several Engineering and Business teams to scale your deliverables and bring an improved user experience and monetization potential to our platform
- You'll have the opportunity to work on a platform with extreme scale requirements
- You should have experience developing and implementing ad algorithms, yield optimization solutions and marketplace data analyses within an ad network
- You have excellent understanding of scalable architectures including operational concerns
- You'll lead the function that conceives of, develops, and delivers state of the art capabilities that differentiate our products and are core to our business
- You'll oversee the strategy and development of our inference models to predict user interaction with our Ads
Other
- MS in AI/ML/Mathematics/CS or related field
- Proven ability to take requirements from design through to implementation both independently and with larger teams
- You enjoy working closely with operational teams on deployment, monitoring, and management concerns
- You actively manage performance of the team reporting to you and take responsibility to drive its outcome
- Ability to be a great teammate under tight deadline constraints
