Machine Learning Engineer - Strategic Data Solutions

Apple - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Machine Learning Engineer position within Apple's Strategic Data Solutions (SDS) team focuses on developing and implementing analytical solutions that enhance security, fraud prevention, and operational efficiency across various business functions. This role involves employing predictive modeling and statistical analysis to create end-to-end solutions that deliver measurable impacts on Apple's operations and customer experiences.

Responsibilities

• Engage with business teams to identify opportunities and translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Design data science approaches, applying established techniques or developing custom algorithms as needed.
• Collaborate with data engineers and platform architects to implement robust production real-time and batch decisioning solutions.
• Monitor production decision points to ensure operational and business metric health.
• Investigate adversarial trends and identify behavior patterns, responding with agile logic changes.
• Communicate results of analyses to business partners and executives.

Requirements

• Education in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or Statistics, or equivalent professional experience.
• Ability to implement data science pipelines and applications in programming languages such as Python, Scala, or Java.
• Working knowledge of relational databases, including SQL, and large-scale distributed systems such as Hadoop and Spark.
• Practical experience with algorithms for classification, regression, clustering, and anomaly detection.
• Ability to comprehend and debug complex systems integrations spanning toolchains and teams.

Nice-to-haves

• Creativity to engineer novel features and signals, pushing beyond current tools and approaches.
• Ability to extract meaningful business insights from data and identify the stories behind the patterns.
• Excellent presentation skills, distilling complex analysis and concepts into concise business-focused takeaways.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• 401k retirement savings plan
• Paid holidays
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development opportunities