Staff Machine Learning Engineer – Ads Platform

Apple • Austin, TX

18h

About The Position

Apple Ads is Hiring a hands-on Machine Learning Engineer. In this role you will build design and build Machine learning systems and data pipelines to safeguard the advertiser trust of our platform and enhance invalid traffic protections. You will define and execute an innovation roadmap; build and deploy models with robust CI/CD, feature stores, and streaming infrastructure (e.g., Kafka/Spark/Flink); and run A/B experimentation. You will lead performance tuning, calibration, and drift detection to deliver measurable improvements in product quality, user experience, latency, and cost.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building machine learning capabilities across many different product areas at scale
• Strong proficiency in Java, Python, or Scala for algorithm and system development.
• Experience with distributed systems and big data frameworks such as Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, or Flink.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design principles.
• Familiarity with CI/CD workflows, cloud environments, and containerized deployments.
• Knowledge of data validation, cleansing, and quality assurance practices.
• Understanding of statistical methods, A/B testing, and online experimentation frameworks.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related technical fields.

Nice To Haves

• 10+ years of experience building machine learning capabilities across many different product areas at scale.
• Background in Advertising systems.
• Contributions to open-source algorithm frameworks or data processing tools.
• Prior experience working with Anomaly detection is a plus.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level