Machine Learning Engineering Manager Ads Recommendations

At Apple we strive every day to create products that enrich peoples lives. Our Advertising Platforms group enables users worldwide to discover new content seamlessly while empowering publishers and developers to promote and monetize their work. Our technology powers advertising in the App Store and Apple News delivering highly-performant privacy-first solutions that set new industry standards. Were seeking a dynamic and strategic engineering manager to drive innovation in Ads Recommendations. This role requires a deep understanding of Ad network behavior and the ability to develop and prioritize an innovation roadmap that spans multiple technical domains. Youll lead a team that designs develops and delivers innovative capabilities differentiating Apple Ads and driving key business outcomes.n

As a Machine Learning Engineering Manager / Tech Lead Manager youll be responsible for building the next generation advertiser recommendation engine to enable advertisers to optimize for their campaign performance goals on Apple Ads. You will work with a variety of cross functional business partners to set strategy and bring end-to-end solutions that scale as we addition you will have the opportunity to play a critical role in influencing the roadmap and technical strategy in allied areas like campaign optimization auction optimization etc. all of which are critical for delivering an enhanced experience for advertisers on our - Define and implement the technical strategy for building the next generation recommendation engine to help advertisers optimize for their campaign performance goals.n- Leverage innovative research and technology including the latest GenAI and agentic approaches to deliver these capabilities at scale.n- Play a critical role in shaping the strategy and roadmap for allied areas like campaign optimization auction optimization etc. to deliver an optimal end-to-end experience for advertisers.n- Design and analyze sophisticated algorithms to deliver incremental improvements that are privacy compliant.n- Execute and analyze A/B tests and pilots to drive continuous improvements in advertiser-facing applications.n- Work closely with engineering and business teams to scale innovations improving advertiser experience and monetization potential across Apple Ads.n- Operate at utmost scale ensuring efficient and reliable model deployment and execution.n- Architect and scale intelligence systems addressing operational concerns and performance optimizations.n- Lead mentor and grow a talented team of engineers setting technical direction and execution cadence.n

8 years of experience in machine learning statistics and quantitative optimization with at least 2-3 years as a tech lead or at least 1 year as an engineering record of leading machine learning engineering teams from design to implementation ensuring scalability and understanding of modern machine learning techniques statistics and quantitative working with operational teams on deployment monitoring and system running A/B tests and pilots for sales / advertiser-facing building GenAI and agentic -on experience with Python or Java in a production in databases SQL and scripting languages for data processing and model or equivalent experience in AI ML Mathematics Computer Science or a related field.

5 years of experience leading teams that apply advanced statistical/ML experience in the online advertising domain is a big or equivalent experience in AI ML Mathematics Computer Science or a related field.