Apple

Senior Search Engineer - Services Special Projects

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14 hours ago
Cupertino, CA, USASenior
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Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, deploy, and optimize large-scale real-time search systems in production.
  • Build search capabilities involving information retrieval, query understanding, query augmentation, multi-stage ranking, personalization, and user feedback loops.
  • Develop and optimize deep learning, embedding, LLM, and ML model serving in the production query/request path.
  • Implement multi-objective search optimization across relevance, diversity, freshness, and fairness.
  • Build real-time data processing and model retraining pipelines.
  • Tune models, quantization, KV-cache, and batching for low-latency and high-throughput inference.
  • Collaborate with AI/ML scientists and engineers on Generative AI and Information Retrieval systems.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of experience in Machine Learning, Data Science, or Software Engineering, with significant focus on search infrastructure and information retrieval.
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying large-scale search systems in production.
  • Deep understanding of information retrieval, query understanding, query augmentation, and multi-stage ranking algorithms.
  • Experience with deep learning architectures for search and retrieval, including transformers, cross-encoder models, graph neural networks, and learned sparse representations.
  • Strong proficiency in Go, Java, C++, and Python.
  • Experience with PyTorch and XGBoost.
  • Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Spark, Flink, FAISS, Apache Kafka, OpenSearch, and/or Elasticsearch.
  • Experience deploying, serving, and optimizing LLMs, embeddings, and ML models in production query paths.
  • Preferred experience includes a Master's degree or PhD, published work or patents, TigerGraph, DVC, MLflow, Weights & Biases, SSTables, Cassandra, ONNX Runtime, TensorRT, TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, SGLang, Triton, and TorchServe.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkAWSC++DockerDVCElasticsearchGoJavaKubernetesMLflowPythonPyTorchXGBoost

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About Apple

10,000+ employees

Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and services for consumers and professionals worldwide, including iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods, plus platforms like iOS/macOS and services such as the App Store, iCloud, Music, and TV+. Its business combines device sales with services and subscriptions and in-house silicon design. Founded in 1976, Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, and trades on NASDAQ as AAPL.

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