Machine Learning Researcher - Apple Music - Recommender Systems

Your work at Apple Music will become part of a product that deeply cares for music and for the privacy of our users in a way no other company can match. We work at massive scale and across a wide variety of personalisation products that touch every aspect of the Apple Music experience.You will research AI/ML models for recommendation, bespoke and foundational, that push the state of the art. You will train and fine-tune them on huge GPU grids and massive quantities of data, and help deploy them into our large-scale, low-latency services. You will run experiments, translate results into product decisions and publish what you find.You will work alongside some of the best researchers and engineers in the field, connected to Apple’s wider internal ML research community. We hire great people and trust them to do their best work. It’s the people who make it exciting to work here every day, and you will be one of them.Is this you? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

• Track record of leading ML recommender system projects from research through to production at scale
• Peer-reviewed publications at venues such as RecSys, SIGIR, KDD, ISMIR, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML or related
• Expertise in modern recommender methods (e.g. multi-interest, neural ranking, RL, sequential, generative)
• Solid experience with Python ML toolkits such as TensorFlow or PyTorch
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• A PhD/MSc in computer science, statistics, applied mathematics or related field, or equivalent education/experience, * Familiarity with LLM methods applied to recommendation
• Experience with counterfactual evaluation
• Experience with Spark SQL
• Love of music

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