Senior ML Software Engineer (Framework) - System Intelligent and Machine Learning, ISE

Cupertino,California,United States

Machine Learning and AI

Are you interested in making an extensive and impactful contribution to Machine Learning at Apple? Perceiving and reasoning about the world around us, through images/video, text, and/or other signals, is fundamental to crafting engaging user experiences that impact the lives of millions of our customers. Our Scene Understanding (SUN) team strives to apply cutting edge Machine learning in innovative, inclusive, and impactful ways that address problems that our users deeply care about. We are part of the System Intelligent and Machine Learning (SIML) group that provides foundational computer vision and machine learning technologies to Apple’s ecosystem. Our work is behind essential features such as Camera, Text & Handwriting recognition, and Apple Intelligence experiences (Image Playground, Writing Tools, Smart Script, Math Notes). The SUN team is seekeing a technical lead in ML software engineering. The primary responsibilities associated with this position range from algorithm design and implementation, ability to integrate research into production frameworks, and collaborating closely with product teams before and after feature launch. Here are a selection of relevant Apple Machine learning Blogs and WWDC presentations: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/on-device-scene-analysis https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/salient-object-segmentation https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/panoptic-segmentation https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/222/ https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/225/

Description

The Scene Understanding team is seeking a senior software/ML engineer with a proven track record in shipping customer experiences. You will be interacting very closely with a variety of ML researchers, software engineers, hardware & design teams cross functionally. Among the most important requirement would be a deep understanding of software fundamentals, and the ability to translate ML algorithms into production quality code. Solutions developed will leverage multi-modal inputs (visual, range, nlp, audio) with a strong emphasis on visual processing. Our team contributes to a variety of shipping workflows you may already regularly use, including: Apple Intelligence, Photos Search, Curation, Memories, Intelligent Autocrop, Visual Captioning for Accessibility, Federated Learning on visual content, Real-time Classification & Saliency in Camera, Semantic Segmentation in Camera, and several on-device backbones across the system. Further, several of our projects are surfaced to third party developers through Vision & CoreML. Shipping APIs include image tagging, image similarity, saliency estimation and prints for transfer learning. IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL: - Lead and guide in the development of our production framework that exposes ML core technologies to clients across Apple and to third party developers. - Work closely with Machine learning researchers, hardware teams, user experience/design teams, etc in order to ensure these ML core technologies run as efficiently, and accurately as possible across a variety of Apple platforms (iOS, mac OS, vision OS, etc). - Iterate with multiple cross functional teams as we refine various user experiences and strive to address meaningful user problems as innovatively and inclusively as possible.

Minimum Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S in Computer Science or a related field (mathematics, physics or computer engineering); or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of industry experience in software framework development

• Proficient in coding in C++ and/or Objective C

• Ability to design/implement flexible APIs that will expose machine learning algorithms to clients across Apple platforms

• Experience with multiple modalities (image, text, audio, etc)

Key Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Machine Learning algorithms is desired

• Proven prototyping skills, and understanding of the unique challenges associated to the transition of a prototype into a final product

• Proven experience with hands-on software engineering fundamentals

• Familiar with the challenges of developing algorithms that run efficiently on resource constrained platforms

• Comfortable presenting research to large audiences with the ability to work hands-on in multi-functional teams

• Experience with OS X and iOS development tools and familiarity with GPU programming is desired

Education & Experience

Additional Requirements

Pay & Benefits

• 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 $175,800 and $264,200, 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.Learn more (https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html) about Apple Benefits.Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

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