Machine Learning Researcher - Apple Music - Recommender Systems
Core
Research AI/ML models for music recommendation to connect artists with fans and power features like Home, New tabs, Discovery Station, and Playlist Playground.
Role type
Senior IC machine learning researcher (recommender systems)
Builds
Large-scale, low-latency recommendation services for Apple Music
Domain
Music streaming / Personalization
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Leading ML recommender system projects from research to production, Peer-reviewed publications in top venues (RecSys, SIGIR, KDD, ISMIR, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML), Modern recommender methods (multi-interest, neural ranking, RL, sequential, generative), Python ML toolkits (TensorFlow, PyTorch), PhD/MSc in CS/Statistics/Math
Preferred skills
LLM methods for recommendation, Counterfactual evaluation, Spark SQL
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