Summary Posted: Oct 28, 2023 Weekly Hours: 23 Role Number: 200515745 Do you want to make Siri and Apple products smarter for our users? Here in the Machine Learning Platform Technology & Infrastructure group we build groundbreaking technology for algorithmic search, machine learning, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence. The features we build are redefining how hundreds of millions of people use their computers and mobile devices to search and find what they are looking for. Siri’s universal search engine powers search features across a variety of Apple products, including Siri, Spotlight, Safari, Messages, Lookup, and more. As part of this group, you will work with one of the most exciting high performance computing environments on Apple’s search product, with petabytes of data, millions of queries per second, and have an opportunity to imagine and build products that delight our customers every single day. Key Qualifications Key Qualifications Strong coding skills with at least one of the following programming languages: Go, Java, Python, Scala, C/C++, Rust Strong background in computer science: algorithms and data structures Phenomenal interpersonal skills is required; able to work independently as well as in a team Experience with information retrieval, ML applied to search is a plus. Exposure to the challenges of scalable backend infrastructure and performance and how to diagnose, analyse, and resolve them with knowledge of profiling, debugging, tracing tools. Proficiency with distributed computing platform and technologies such as AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, MapReduce, or similar. Experience designing and implementing large scale data pipelines. Description Description We design and build infrastructures to support features that empowers billions of Siri users. Our team processes tens of trillions of links to find the best content to surface to users through search. We also analyze pages to extract critical features for indexing, ranking. We apply statistical analysis to improve link selection, freshness, retrieval rates, extraction quality, and many others. You’ll have the opportunity to work with large scale systems with trillions of rows and many petabytes of data and incredible complexity. In particular you will work at the intersection between quality and performance, optimizing the components that serve our indexes, working on retrieval infrastructure to improve relevance for users inside the constraints that come with a high throughput index serving infrastructure.
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