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Machine Learning Engineer - Strategic Data Solutions

Apple· Corporate Functions
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Hybrid (Austin, TX)Not specifiedPosted 2mo ago

About the role

SDS Machine Learning Engineer role focusing on predictive modeling and end-to-end analytic solutions to improve security, fraud prevention, and operational efficiency across Apple’s ecosystem. Emphasis on handling privacy, adversarial fraud, and large-scale data with production real-time and batch decisioning.

Responsibilities

  • Engage with business teams to find opportunities, understand requirements, and translate those requirements into technical solutions
  • Design data science approach, applying tried-and-true techniques or developing custom algorithms as needed by the business problem
  • Collaborate with data engineers and platform architects to implement robust production real-time and batch decisioning solutions
  • Ensure operational and business metric health by monitoring production decision points
  • Investigate adversarial trends, identify behavior patterns, and respond with agile logic changes
  • Communicate results of analyses to business partners and executives

Qualifications

  • Education in a quantitative field, such as Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or Statistics, or at least 4+ years of relevant experience
  • Practical experience with and theoretical understanding of algorithms for classification, regression, clustering, and anomaly detection
  • Working knowledge of relational databases, including SQL, and large-scale distributed systems such as Hadoop and Spark
  • Ability to implement data science pipelines and applications in a general programming language such as Python, Scala, or Java
  • Ability to comprehend and debug complex systems integrations spanning toolchains and teams
  • 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
  • Creativity to engineer novel features and signals, and to push beyond current tools and approaches

Skills

Required:Predictive modeling and statistical analysisData engineering collaborationSQL and relational databasesDistributed systems (Hadoop, Spark)Programming languages (Python, Scala, Java)Communication and presentation
Last updated Aug 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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