Machine Learning Engineer, Natural Language Understanding, Proactive

Apple Inc.

Santa Clara, CA, United States

24 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Experienced

Experience required

4 years minimum

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.techcareers.com

Tech stack

Computer Vision C++ (Programming Language) Computer Engineering Decision Support Systems Python (Programming Language) Machine Learning Natural Language Processing Tensorflow Software Engineering Pytorch Ios Frameworks Information Technology

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Xgboost Natural Language Understanding

Requirements

4 or more years of experience in machine learning, natural language processing, or computer vision, applied at scale
Software engineering experience with Python, Go, or C/C++ Communication and collaboration skills
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Statistics, Physics, Mathematics, or a related field, * Advanced degree (Master’s or Ph.D.) in Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience
Experience in large-scale query understanding, search, recommendation, or personal assistant systems
Proficiency with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, or XGBoost
Background in personalization and data-driven decision making, with the ability to prototype solutions and conduct critical analysis
Experience with Swift or iOS development

About the company

The On-Device Query Understanding team builds personalized, state-of-the-art query understanding models that power search intelligence across Spotlight and first-party apps like Mail, Photos, and Reminders. You will drive scalable evaluations and modeling improvements that directly impact millions of Apple users while contributing to the broader machine learning community. In this role, you will bring together research and engineering excellence to advance how Apple understands what people are looking for, and why.