Senior machine learning platform engineer, Evaluation & Privacy

Job summary

Apple is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer to join the Privacy Preserving Machine Learning team. This role involves working with engineers and scientists across Apple to integrate machine learning investigations onto a privacy-preserving platform, designing systems to turn these investigations into production capabilities. The goal is to deploy better features to billions of devices while protecting user privacy.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Strong technical background
• Ability to work effectively across a wide range of technologies
• Adaptability to new problems and systems
• Technical breadth to understand systems end-to-end
• Passion for customer privacy
• Experience with privacy-enhancing technologies such as differential privacy, secure multi-party computation, private federated learning, or PII redaction frameworks
• Experience training, evaluating, and deploying machine learning models to production
• 5+ years of industry experience
• Master's degree or PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
• 2+ years of industry experience with a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related technical field
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python and Swift
• Experience building software that runs in the background or on a schedule on autonomous systems like iPhone
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Creativity in finding effective solutions
• Ability to collaborate with teams across the company

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the platform supporting privacy-preserving machine learning training and evaluation, including private federated learning systems on user devices
• Scale distributed training and evaluation infrastructure for Apple products and teams
• Partner with applied scientists to transition novel privacy-preserving algorithms from research to production systems
• Collaborate with product teams across Apple to facilitate platform adoption and meet privacy standards

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