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Machine Learning Manager

Apple· Corporate Functions / Apple Online Store team
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ShanghaiFull-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Applied Senior Machine Learning Engineering leader responsible for leading the Online Retail Decision Automation team in building next-generation ML algorithms for product search, recommendations, personalization, Generative AI, and related infrastructure across Apple Online Store and Retail Store.

Responsibilities

  • Attract, hire, and inspire a diverse world-class engineering and program management team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence
  • Develop the leadership strategy within region and drive the organizational relationships with our partners
  • Enable team members to grow their careers by providing the right opportunities along with clear and timely feedback
  • Lead team of machine learning engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams overseeing the entire development lifecycle from design, implementation to operationalize robust, scalable and efficient machine learning solutions
  • Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, industry trends, and advancements in ML practices to identify opportunities for improvement and innovation and effectively communicate with stakeholders, providing regular updates on project status, progress, and any potential risks or challenges

Qualifications

  • 8+ years related experience in enterprise applications with 3+ years of managing large engineering teams
  • Ability to participate in investigations into realtime and offline analysis, and draw conclusions from data, recommend actions
  • Excellent leadership skills with the ability to build and manage high-performing engineering teams
  • Experience enabling large-scale, high throughput and distributed customer facing applications
  • Ph.D. or Masters in a quantitative field, such as Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or Statistics, or equivalent professional experience
  • Experience in Recommender Systems, Personalization, Search, Computational Advertising or Natural Language Processing including RAG based Generative AI and transformer architecture
  • Experience with building data processing pipelines, large scale machine learning systems, and big data technologies (e.g. Spark, SQL, Snowflake/Hadoop, etc)
  • Proficiency in one or more object-oriented programming languages such as Python, Java, C++ and experience building highly scalable distributed systems

Skills

Required:Leadership and people managementMachine learning engineeringCross-functional collaborationRecommender Systems / Personalization / NLP / Generative AI

Benefits

  • Apple seeks to provide accommodation and inclusion; accessibility commitments noted, but no explicit benefits list provided in the description.
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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