Senior Machine Learning Scientist - Ads Marketplace Optimization

Apple • Cupertino, CA

74d

About The Position

At Apple, we strive every day to create products that enrich people's lives. Apple Ads enables users worldwide to discover new content seamlessly while empowering publishers and developers to promote and monetize their work. Our technology powers advertising in the App Store and Apple News, delivering highly-performant, privacy-first solutions that set new industry standards. We are seeking a self-motivated individual that will build out the next generation of our ads platforms and ensure that Apple provides the most relevant and high quality ads experience while maintaining a healthy marketplace. You will be responsible for designing algorithms and systems for ads marketplace optimization and work closely with business partners to help drive the development of new products as well as perform large scale and complex experiments to understand their effects. You will drive strategic outcomes through substantial innovation in multiple fields by leading the development and application of advanced techniques and algorithms to improve our ad network. You have a deep understanding of the ad network behavior, and will work with product management and business leadership to prioritize an innovation roadmap across multiple technical domains. You will lead the conception, development, and delivery of state of the art capabilities that differentiate our products and are core to our business.

Requirements

• PhD in Economics, Operations Research, Machine Learning, Statistics, Control Theory, Forecasting, Optimization, Reinforcement Learning or related field.
• Experience building production systems or equivalent experience working with large data science / machine learning projects in industry.
• Strong background in auction theory, quantitative optimization, and statistics.
• Hands-on experience building and optimizing online ads auction based ad delivery systems in production.
• Excellent understanding of scalable architectures.
• Ability to work in Agile environments.
• Strong teamwork skills under tight deadline constraints.

Responsibilities

• Design algorithms and systems for ads marketplace optimization.
• Work closely with business partners to drive the development of new products.
• Perform large scale and complex experiments to understand their effects.
• Lead the development and application of advanced techniques and algorithms to improve the ad network.
• Prioritize an innovation roadmap across multiple technical domains.
• Conceive, develop, and deliver state of the art capabilities for the advertising platform.
• Set strategy and bring end-to-end solutions that scale as the business grows.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees