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Senior Data Scientist - Special Projects

Apple· Software and Services
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Cupertino$144.6k - $263.8kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Apple seeks a data scientist to analyze diverse multi-modal datasets, surface insights, and design tools to understand and improve the intelligence behind Apple products. You will work across the full data lifecycle, including signal discovery in large-scale logs, building data access mechanisms, and crafting visualizations and evaluations to guide product direction and system performance.

Responsibilities

  • Explore, analyze, and model large volumes of multi-modal data from devices and cloud systems to identify trends, correlations, and anomalies
  • Design and build interactive dashboards, visualizations, and metrics that help engineering and product teams evaluate system behavior
  • Develop search, retrieval, and indexing strategies to make data more discoverable, usable, and actionable across teams
  • Partner with AI and robotics engineers to design evaluation frameworks, KPIs, and diagnostics that assess data quality, model behavior, and system performance
  • Work with cloud engineers to shape how data is organized, stored, and exposed for efficient querying
  • Investigate data quality issues, define validation strategies, and recommend improvements to data collection and pipeline design
  • Collaborate with hardware, robotics, AI, and user experience teams to interpret data within the broader system context
  • Communicate insights clearly through written analyses, visual storytelling, and presentations to stakeholders

Qualifications

  • Proven experience in data science, analytics engineering, or applied research roles
  • Strong proficiency in Python and common data analysis libraries
  • Expertise with data visualization tools or frameworks for building interactive dashboards
  • Experience querying and modeling data in SQL and NoSQL environments
  • Ability to analyze large-scale, high-dimensional, and multi-modal datasets
  • Familiarity with designing or using search and retrieval systems for large-scale data
  • Experience designing KPIs, evaluation metrics, or experiment analyses for complex systems
  • Strong statistical intuition and experience with exploratory data analysis and hypothesis testing
  • Ability to translate complex findings into clear, actionable insights for cross-functional teams
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or related field, and 5+ years of industry experience

Skills

Required:PythonData visualizationSQL and NoSQLStatistical analysisCommunication

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • range of discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments (possible)
  • relocation assistance
  • Apple employee stock programs (discretionary RSU awards)
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • access to relocation support and other benefits as eligibility allows
Last updated Jul 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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