Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer – Ads Prediction, Signals & Quality
Apple
Full-time
On-site
New York City, New York, United States
Machine Learning
We are seeking an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to drive innovation in ad prediction, quality, and privacy-preserving signals. This role spans three critical areas: building large-scale prediction models, designing signals that respect user privacy, and ensuring ad quality that aligns with Apple’s values of trust and transparency. You will set technical direction, lead complex initiatives, and mentor engineers while collaborating closely with research, infrastructure, and product teams.
This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of privacy-first advertising at Apple. You’ll work with some of the best engineers and researchers in the field, solve problems at massive scale, and deliver models that respect users while driving meaningful outcomes for advertisers.
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related discipline.
- Published research or open-source contributions in ads, ranking, privacy-preserving ML, or large-scale prediction systems.
- Experience leading multi-team or cross-org initiatives with measurable business and user impact.
- Deep expertise in signals engineering for ads quality, trust & safety, or search relevance.
- MS or PhD, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval, or a related field.
- Great foundation in information retrieval, including query-document matching, embedding-based ranking, and learning-to-rank algorithms is a plus