Software Engineer - Data Science, Apple Services Engineering

The Products Data Science team sits at the intersection of engineering and various businesses across services which together form Apple Media Products. The team’s charter is to apply advanced analytics to improve our portfolio of applications by understanding our customer’s behaviour and anticipating their needs. Our customers are both individuals who use our apps such as Apple Music and content-providing partners who create content for those apps. Our capabilities power some of the features in the various, customer-facing applications produced by Apple Media Products. In our day-to-day work, we collaborate with geographically distributed and multi-functional collaborators to deliver delightful and innovative customer experiences. We work closely with data-engineers, program managers, product managers and business partners to understand and anticipate our customer’s needs, define and build features, and to measure and communicate results. We then work with web-scale datasets to do data exploration, feature engineering, and machine learning model training and deployment. We are also called upon to develop proprietary algorithms, to evaluate and measure model performance, and work with partners on model adoptions. Technically, this role requires a breadth of knowledge of statistical and machine learning methods. It also requires the creativity to invent and customise the algorithms where required and the ability to collaboratively develop and deploy these advanced analytical products.