Machine Learning Engineering Manager
Apple· Corporate Functions
ShanghaiFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Leads and mentors a team of machine learning engineers to design, implement, and operate analytical solutions with impact across Apple’s business operations. Focuses on real-time and batch decisioning systems for financial products, collaborating with data engineers and platform architects, and communicating complex technical concepts to business and engineering stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of software developers and machine learning engineers
- Design and maintain real-time automated decisioning systems and operations for financial products
- Collaborate with data engineers and platform architects to implement robust production real-time and batch decisioning solutions
- Engage with business partners and understand their unique requirements and design technical solutions
- Review the team's production code and logic for highly integrated systems
- Distill and clearly communicate complex technical topics for both business and engineering stakeholders
- Analyze data and tell meaningful stories to assist business partners
Qualifications
- Experience leading a team of machine learning engineers
- Practical experience training, deploying, and maintaining decisioning algorithms
- Familiarity with distributed databases, data warehousing, and SQL
- Ability to implement custom real-time or batch machine learning applications with their appropriate data pipelines
- Ability to comprehend and debug complex system integrations spanning toolchains and teams
- Ability to extract meaningful business insights from data and identify the stories behind the patterns
- Ability to think at a systems level to anticipate technical, business, and customer impact
- Clear communication and presentation skills
- Excellent problem solving skills, business acumen, and solution design mentality
- Experience writing, reviewing, and deploying production software
- Graduate degree in a quantitative field or equivalent professional experience
- Experience in the following a plus: payments, finance, or financial risk
Skills
Required:Team leadershipDecisioning algorithmsDistributed databasesReal-time / batch ML applicationsSystems integrationData storytellingSystems thinkingCommunicationProduction softwareAdvanced degree
Nice to have:Payments / Finance / Financial risk
Benefits
- Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity, and thus we treat all applicants fairly and equally.
- Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.
- Accessibility is a fundamental human right reflected in culture, benefits, and tools.
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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