Machine Learning Engineer - Strategic Data Solutions
Apple· Corporate Functions
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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