Machine Learning Engineer - AI, Search & Knowledge Platform
Apple· Answers & Knowledge & Information
Hybrid (Beijing, China), Hybrid (Shanghai, China)Full-timePosted 3w ago
About the role
Machine Learning Engineer focusing on large-scale ML/NLP for Siri search, query understanding and ranking. Build infrastructures, run experiments, and leverage petabytes of data to improve product outcomes across Siri, Spotlight, and Safari.
Responsibilities
- - Design and build infrastructures to support features that empower billions of Siri, Spotlight, and Safari users.
- - Perform language processing, statistical analysis, and user intent analysis to support hypotheses for improving product outcomes.
- - Leverage proprietary parallel data processing platform to process web-scale data for product features and improvements.
- - Design and run/deploy metrics and evaluations of features/improvements using tools like grading, logs processing, pre-launch and holdback A/B tests.
- - Present results of analysis to team and leadership across Apple.
Qualifications
- - Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related technical field, or equivalent proven experience.
- - 5+ years of experience in machine learning, retrieval and ranking for search, recommendation, or ads systems.
- - Mastery of two of following languages: Python, Go, Java, C++
- - Excellent knowledge and good practical skills in major machine learning algorithms
- - Hands-on experience in RAG, including developing, evaluating and enhancing for both retrievers and generative LLMs.
- - Excellent data analytical skills
- - Good interpersonal skills and great team player
- - Strong written and verbal communication skills
Skills
Required:PythonMachine LearningRAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
Nice to have:GoJavaC++
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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