Senior Machine Learning Scientist - Ads Marketplace Optimization

Senior Machine Learning Scientist - Ads Marketplace Optimization

Cupertino, California, United States

Machine Learning and AI

At Apple, we strive every day to create products that enrich peoples lives. Apple Ads enables users worldwide to discover new content seamlessly while empowering publishers and developers to promote and monetize their work. Our technology powers advertising in the App Store and Apple News, delivering highly-performant, privacy-first solutions that set new industry standards. We are seeking a self-motivated individual that will build out the next generation of our ads platforms and ensure that Apple provides the most relevant and high quality ads experience while maintaining a healthy marketplace. You will be responsible for designing algorithms and systems for ads marketplace optimization and work closely with business partners to help drive the development of new products as well as perform large scale and complex experiments to understand their effects. You will drive strategic outcomes through substantial innovation in multiple fields by leading the development and application of advanced techniques and algorithms to improve our ad network. You have a deep understanding of the ad network behavior, and will work with product management and business leadership to prioritize an innovation roadmap across multiple technical domains. You will lead the conception, development, and delivery of state of the art capabilities that differentiate our products and are core to our business.

The ideal candidate has a strong background in auction theory, quantitative optimization and statistics, applied machine learning, and large-scale systems, along with hands-on experience building and optimizing online ads auction based ad delivery systems in production. You will have an excellent understanding of scalable architectures and thrive working in Agile environments. The ability to be a great teammate under tight deadline constraints is key to success.

In this role, you are responsible for designing and building the next generation algorithms for core auction system that powers our advertising platform to drive optimal outcomes for advertisers, users, and our platform. You will have the opportunity to build the next generation solutions for marketplace optimization that enable driving optimal value for multiple stakeholders in the system. You will be a thought expert and a domain expert guiding teams for building the next generation solutions for marketplace optimization. You will work with a variety of cross functional business partners to set strategy and bring end-to-end solutions that scale as we grown. You will have the opportunity to apply your ability to move the state of the art techniques in a fast growing business that positively impacts publishers, developers and Apple users at global scale.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience working in online advertising and marketplace design
• Domain expert in ads auction design, budget and bid optimization is a must
• Experience in auction theory, mechanism design, optimization, statistics, machine learning, quantitative methods, control systems, or reinforcement learning
• Ability to apply and implement research concepts, ultimately in production quality code
• Experience defining clear, testable research hypotheses, including intended impact on the business
• Deep knowledge of design of experiments, online experimentation approaches, preferably at scale
• Ability to formulate and advocate for R&D objectives and results to cross-functional team members including executive business leadership and product management
• Experience contributing and/or reviewing research for top conferences and publications
• Deep fluency in Java or Python
• Experience with Spark, Hadoop or other distributed frameworks
• MS in Economics, Operations Research, Machine Learning, Statistics, Control Theory, Forecasting, Optimization, Reinforcement Learning or related field with experience building production systems or have equivalent experience working with large data science / machine learning projects in industry

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in Economics, Operations Research, Machine Learning, Statistics, Control Theory, Forecasting, Optimization, Reinforcement Learning or related field with experience building production systems or have equivalent experience working with large data science / machine learning projects in industry

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $212,000 and $386,300, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.