Apple · 1 month ago
AIML - Sr Data Scientist, Data and ML Innovation
Seattle, Washington, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$181K/yr - $318K/yr
5+ years expApple is a leading technology company known for its innovation and commitment to excellence. They are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to partner with ML researchers and engineers in developing foundational models that enhance Apple Intelligence features. The role involves assessing and improving evaluation techniques, defining training data quality metrics, and driving interpretability of model performance.
AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)BroadcastingDigital EntertainmentFoundational AIMedia and EntertainmentMobile DevicesOperating SystemsTVWearables
Responsibilities
Assess existing foundation models evaluation techniques and improve them to suit Apple’s use cases
Studying loss patterns of models and attributing them to the drivers across the life cycle of model development from pre-training to SFT to RL
Defining training data quality metrics and assessing quality of training data to ensure it positively impacts model performance
Driving interpretability of ablation studies, documenting takeaways and driving a hypothesis driven experimentation strategy
Building tools and automation process using LLMs to scale data science projects
Qualification
Required
5+ years of data science experience demonstrating strong impact to product or model performance
Experience developing evaluation sets and metrics for foundational model performance measurement and diagnostics
Proficiency with applying quantitative methods to structured & unstructured data for exploratory data analysis, pattern recognition, insights generation, metrics development, and scaling analytical tools
Strong programming skills in large scale data manipulation & processing including SQL, Python & Spark
Experience leveraging LLMs in data science workflows
Master's degree in a technical or quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics or Physics
Preferred
Deep understanding of foundation model training and development life cycle
Experience with developing model evaluation simulation environments
Experience generating synthetic data for foundation model training
Experience with prompt optimization for improving in context learning performance of LLMs
Building and deploying end to end Data Science/ML pipelines
PhD degree preferred
Benefits
Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
Retirement benefits
A range of discounted products and free services
Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
Relocation
Company
Apple
Apple is a technology company that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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CEO
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SVP, Software Engineering
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