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aiml sr software data engineer evaluation

Apple

Are you excited about using data to shape the experience of products used by hundreds of millions of people around the world? 
 
The Evaluation Data Engineering team, part of Apple&rsquo;s SWE organization, builds the scalable and reliable data platform that powers Siri, Search, and Machine Learning across Apple. 
 
We&rsquo;re looking for collaborative and mission-driven software engineers who care deeply about data quality, user impact, and building at scale. 
 
If you&rsquo;re passionate about tackling complex data challenges, eager to work with petabytes of data, and inspired by Apple&rsquo;s commitment to privacy and innovation, we&rsquo;d love to hear from you. 
 
Description 
 
In this role, you&rsquo;ll work cross-functionally across product and data science teams to build large-scale stream and batch processing data pipelines that power Analytics, Experimentation, and Machine Learning. 
 
You will design a unified and groundbreaking data processing framework using Flink, and/or Spark. 
 
Your work will focus on optimizing performance, ensuring data quality, and contributing to a long-term vision that extends the framework&rsquo;s capabilities to new user scenarios and groundbreaking machine learning applications. 
 
You will collaborate closely with Siri, Search, and other teams to design solutions that transform raw data into datasets that drive innovation. 
 
You&rsquo;ll automate dataset lifecycles with strong quality standards and help partners confidently use the data for product insights. 
 
Preferred Qualifications 
 
Strong in algorithms, data structures, data modeling, and SQL, with experience working on large-scale, complex, and high-dimensional datasets. 
 
Experience with machine learning algorithms or pipelines, particularly in the context of data engineering. 
 
Experience supporting ML engineers or data scientists with feature engineering or model data pipelines is a plus. 
 
Familiarity with testing tools and methodologies for validating large-scale, distributed data systems (e.g., data quality checks, pipeline testing frameworks, fault tolerance testing). 
 
Proven software engineering fundamentals, including experience with design, testing, version control, and CI/CD best practices. 
 
Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment. 
 
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills. 
 
Minimum Qualifications 
 
7+ years of experience designing, building, and maintaining distributed data processing systems at scale. 
 
5+ years of hands-on experience with stream and/or batch processing technologies such as Flink, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Iceberg, and Trino. 
 
2-3 years of experience in full-stack development 
 
Proficient in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Java, Scala, and Python). 
 
MS or BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience in data engineering. 
 
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant . 
 
Pay &amp; 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 $181,100 and $318,400, 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 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.

AIML - Sr Software Data Engineer, Evaluation

Do you want to play a part in the revolution in Foundation Models? Contribute to model hillclimbing for Apple Intelligence features that leverage Apple Foundation Models, and work with the people who built the intelligent products that helps millions of people get things done - just by asking or typing? 
 
The vision for AIML FM Data organization is to improve Foundation Models by leveraging data and cutting-edge LLM techniques. As a Sr ML Engineering on the team, you will drive ML innovations, identify key opportunity areas and experiment with various techniques to improve model training and evaluation efficiency and performance. 
 
Description 
 
As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will join end-to-end development of large language models and agentic systems, from training pipelines to evaluation frameworks and production deployment. 
 
You will work at the intersection of modeling, infrastructure, and product, helping push model quality through systematic experimentation and iteration. 
 
You&rsquo;ll collaborate closely with research, infrastructure, and product teams to design robust training pipelines, build agent environments, and ship high-impact AI capabilities into real-world applications. 
 
This role blends deep modeling expertise with strong engineering fundamentals and offers the opportunity to shape both the technical direction and the ML platform powering Apple products.&quot;,&quot;responsibilities&quot;:&quot;Model Training &amp; Optimization 
 
Design and implement large-scale LLM pretraining and post-training pipelines, including supervised fine-tuning, preference optimization, and continual learning. 
 
Drive model hillclimbing through disciplined experimentation: dataset curation, hyperparameter tuning, and ablation studies. 
 
Work on scalable training workflows using distributed frameworks. 
 
Evaluation, Reward, and Data Systems 
 
Develop evaluation frameworks for both offline benchmarks and online metrics, covering reasoning, tool use, and task success. 
 
Design and maintain verifiers / rubric-based reward systems for agentic tasks and model alignment. 
 
Build data pipelines for data generation, filtering, labeling, and replay buffers. 
 
Agent &amp; Environment Infrastructure 
 
Build and maintain agent training environments, including tool APIs, simulators, and sandboxed runtimes. 
 
Implement environment abstractions to support reinforcement learning and agent evaluation at scale. 
 
Collaborate on large scale RL-infra: RL-trainer, rollout system, and containerized environments. 
 
Preferred Qualifications 
 
Direct experience with agentic systems, including tool use, environment design, or reinforcement learning. 
 
Experience with building or operating training environments or simulators (gym-style, tool-based, or sandboxed environments). 
 
Experience with model hillclimbing workflows: systematic experimentation, ablations, dataset iteration, and continuous quality improvement. 
 
Ability to work across research and engineering boundaries, turning ideas into scalable systems. 
 
Have demonstrated creative and critical thinking with an innate drive to improve how things work. Have a high tolerance for ambiguity. 
 
Minimum Qualifications 
 
5+ years of hands on ML engineering experiences, with at least 1+ years working directly on large language models or generative AI. 
 
Bachelor&rsquo;s, Master&rsquo;s, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field - or equivalent practical experience. 
 
Hands-on experience with LLM training workflows, including one or more of: Pretraining or continued pretraining, Supervised fine-tuning (SFT), Preference optimization (e.g., RLHF, DPO, PPO). 
 
Strong software engineering fundamentals: debugging, testing, code reviews, and production reliability. 
 
Demonstrated publication records in relevant conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.). 
 
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant . 
 
Pay &amp; 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 $147,400 and $272,100, 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 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.

AIML - Sr Machine Learning Engineer, Data and ML Innovation

Apple&rsquo;s Health Sensing team is seeking a versatile Machine Learning Engineer to develop next-generation health algorithms that deliver meaningful insights to users by combining classical ML, signal processing, and emerging generative AI techniques. Our team has delivered impactful features including heart rate notifications, ECG, blood oxygen, sleep apnea notifications, and overnight vitals to millions of Apple Watch users. 
 
Description 
 
This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys moving quickly from idea to prototype to product, creatively overcoming data limitations, and applying new tools to multi-modal sensor fusion problems in health and wellness. You will work across the full algorithm lifecycle including data strategy, modeling, evaluation, optimization, and deployment.&quot;,&quot;responsibilities&quot;:&quot;Develop and validate ML and GenAI-driven algorithms for health sensing applications from concept through productization 
 
Prototype and compare multiple approaches using real and synthetic data to accelerate algorithm development 
 
Design experiments and evaluation methodologies to quantify performance and guide algorithm improvements 
 
Optimize algorithms for robustness, efficiency, and on-device deployment constraints 
 
Work cross-functionally with user studies, hardware, software, and product teams to bring algorithms into product 
 
Analyze failure modes, quantify tradeoffs, and drive data-driven algorithm improvements 
 
Preferred Qualifications 
 
Experience developing algorithms for physiological sensing using multi-modal data 
 
Familiarity with on-device ML frameworks or resource-constrained optimization 
 
Experience working with incomplete, noisy, or limited datasets 
 
Background in experimental design and statistical validation 
 
Experience with distributed or cloud-based ML workflows 
 
Experience accelerating development through simulation, synthetic data, or creative data augmentation approaches 
 
Self-driven, curious engineer comfortable taking ambiguous sensing problems from concept to working solutions 
 
Minimum Qualifications 
 
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or related field, or equivalent industry experience. 
 
Strong foundation in machine learning, statistics, signal processing, or applied mathematics for real-world sensing problems 
 
Experience applying modern AI techniques, including generative AI and agentic AI, to accelerate algorithm development, data generation, and performance evaluation 
 
Proficiency in Python for algorithm development and optimization 
 
Demonstrated ability to rapidly prototype, evaluate multiple approaches, and iterate based on experimental results 
 
Experience owning algorithm development from early exploration through validation and integration 
 
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant . 
 
Pay &amp; 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 $139,500 and $258,100, 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 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.

Machine Learning Engineer

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish! Do you love thinking analytically? Are you passionate about using your financial knowledge to navigate sophisticated challenges? Just as our customers find value in Apple products, the Finance group finds value for both Apple and its shareholders. 
 
As part of this group, you&rsquo;ll play an integral role in ensuring our day-to-day financial health. You and your team will support Apple&rsquo;s growth, both top and bottom line, by applying the same level of innovation toward financial matters as we do toward our products and services. Finance is essential to upholding our global commitment to excellence, and it is directly responsible for shaping the company&rsquo;s future. Join us, and you&rsquo;ll have an important role in continuing Apple&rsquo;s legacy of efficiency and success. 
 
Description 
 
Apple is seeking a highly motivated and experienced finance professional to join the Engineering Finance team to support the Software and AIML Engineering teams. You will be an integral part of the Engineering Finance team, working directly with engineering partners and cross functional Finance teams.&quot;,&quot;responsibilities&quot;:&quot;Own annual planning, monthly forecasting and quarterly close processes for Engineering teams they will support 
 
Work with cross functional teams in Corp Procurement and Engineering Program Management teams to formulate and understand forecast drivers 
 
Develop insightful analytics on different types of data used in LLMs and decision making involved in procuring one type of data over another 
 
Have a passion to dive deep, learn, and collaborate with senior leadership on Apple Intelligence and LLMs; be able to link spending decisions to feature and product roadmaps 
 
Support quarterly business review presentation with Engineering and Finance leadership, proactively anticipating and addressing potential questions 
 
Preferred Qualifications 
 
Strong sense of team &amp; relationships 
 
Self-motivated and independent with the ability to deliver compelling solutions in a fast-paced environment 
 
Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate results of analysis succinctly 
 
CPA 
 
Minimum Qualifications 
 
Bachelor's Degree in either Accounting, Finance, Economics, Operations Planning or equivalent 
 
7+ years of relevant experience, with Banking, Big 4 or direct technology experiences preferred 
 
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant . 
 
Pay &amp; 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 $137,900 and $207,300, 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 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.

Financial Analyst, Engineering Finance

Would you like to be a part of Apple&rsquo;s AI and Machine Learning org, where we encourage and create groundbreaking technology for multi-modal models with strong agent and reasoning capabilities? The Data and Machine Learning Innovation (DMLI) team is seeking a passionate Machine Learning Engineer to explore new methods, challenge existing metrics and protocols, and develop new insightful practices for real-world ML challenges. As a team member, you will work on some of the most ambitious technical challenges in the field. Your role will involve collaborating closely with our team of machine learning researchers, engineers, and data scientists. Together, you will spearhead groundbreaking research initiatives and develop transformative products designed to build for billions of users worldwide. 
 
Description 
 
As a Machine Learning (ML) Engineer, you will be entrusted with the critical role of innovating and applying innovative research in foundation models to with a particular focus on audio data. This includes working across the full ML pipeline-from pre-training on large-scale unlabeled audio corpora to post-training evaluation and fine-tuning with task-specific datasets. The solutions you develop will have a significant impact on future Apple software and hardware products, as well as the broader ML ecosystem. 
 
Your responsibilities will extend to designing and developing a comprehensive multi-modal data generation and curation framework for foundation models at Apple. You will also contribute to building robust model evaluation pipelines that support continuous improvement and performance assessment. In addition, the role involves analyzing multi-modal data to better understand its influence on model behavior and outcomes. Furthermore, you will have the opportunity to showcase your groundbreaking research work by publishing and presenting at premier academic venues. 
 
YOUR WORK MAY SPAN VARIOUS APPLICATIONS, INCLUDING: 
 
Designing self-supervised and semi-supervised representation learning pipelines, and fine-tuning strategies for tasks like speech recognition and speaker identification. 
 
Applying data selection techniques such as novelty detection and active learning across multi modalities to improve data efficiency and reduce distributional gaps. 
 
Modeling data distributions using ML/statistical methods to uncover patterns, reduce redundancy, and handle out-of-distribution challenges. 
 
Rapidly learning new methods and domains as needed, and guiding product teams in selecting effective ML solutions. 
 
Preferred Qualifications 
 
Deep understanding of multi-modal foundation models. 
 
Staying up-to-date with emerging trends in generative AI and multi-modal LLMs. 
 
The ability to formulate machine learning problems, design, experiment, implement, and communicate solutions effectively with multi-functional teams. 
 
Demonstrated publication records in relevant conferences (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.). 
 
Track records of adopting ML to solve cross-disciplinary problems. 
 
Minimum Qualifications 
 
Deep technical skills in one or more machine learning areas, such as computer vision, audio, combinatorial optimization, causality analysis, natural language processing, and deep learning. 
 
Strong software development skills with proficiency in Python; hands-on experience working with deep learning toolkits like PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX (one of). 
 
5+ years of experience developing and evaluating ML applications, demonstrating a passion for understanding and improving model/data quality.&lsquo; 
 
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant . 
 
Pay &amp; 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 $147,400 and $272,100, 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 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.

AIML - Sr Machine Learning Engineer - Data and ML Innovation

We build frontier foundation models that power intelligent experiences at Apple. Our team works across the full training lifecycle: including pre-training foundation models, and developing mid-training approaches that bridge general capability and task-specific performance. What makes our work distinct is that we're engineering models specifically for Apple silicon and optimized for experiences that are private, personal, and deeply integrated into the OS. We're solving frontier problems in reward modeling to resist reward hacking, handling sparse and delayed rewards in agentic settings, and aligning models reliably across the spectrum from open-ended creative tasks to precise, action-taking workflows. If you're drawn to hard problems where the research and the product are inseparable, this is the team. 
 
Description 
 
This position operates at the convergence of Software Engineering and Machine Learning Research. Unlike traditional backend roles, this position requires you to design systems where the outcome is the statistical distribution and quality of data itself. You will work alongside Research Scientists to transform theoretical observations into concrete, scalable engineering solutions. Your core focus will be the architecture of our Data Acquisition, Processing, and Repository Management systems for Large Model training. You will lead technical efforts to enable active, quality-driven data curation, including filtering, deduping, synthetic data generation and data mixing, ensuring our models are trained on the highest-quality information available.&quot;,&quot;responsibilities&quot;:&quot;Architect Scalable Ingestion Systems: Design and implement high-throughput distributed systems to ingest petabytes of text and multimodal data from diverse sources, including web crawls and third-party partnerships. 
 
Repository Optimization: Manage the lifecycle of large-scale datasets across data storage and high-performance file systems. Optimize data formats for efficient random access and sequential scanning during model training. 
 
Data Governance &amp; Privacy: Engineer robust data governance and privacy solutions for the training data, in collaboration with compliance and legal teams, to ensure adherence to stringent regulatory standards. 
 
High-Performance Processing Pipelines: Build and maintain distributed data processing workflows using advanced frameworks on cloud infrastructure (e.g., GCP, AWS). 
 
Algorithmic Data Curation: Implement sophisticated data filtering and selection logic to remove low-quality content. Develop semantic deduplication at scale to prevent model memorization and improve training efficiency. 
 
Decontamination Removal: Design automated systems to detect and remove benchmark leakage, ensuring that evaluation datasets remain strictly isolated from training corpora. 
 
Infrastructure for Scaling Laws: Collaborate with researchers to enable data ablations and scaling experiments. Build tools to support systematic data mixture optimization and empirically data studies. 
 
Preferred Qualifications 
 
Research Collaboration: Experience working within or closely with ML research organizations (e.g., as a Research Engineer), with an ability to translate research results into engineering implementations. 
 
Domain Knowledge: Familiarity with lifecycle of modern LLM training, end-to-end workflows, and underlying system architecture. 
 
Complex Data Types: Experience in processing complex data modalities beyond plain text, such as source code repositories, images, videos, and audios. 
 
Minimum Qualifications 
 
Education: Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Mathematics. 
 
Technical Expertise: 4+ years of software engineering experience with a specific focus on Data Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, or AI/ML Engineering. 
 
Language Proficiency: Expert fluency in Python, and strong competence in system languages such as C++. 
 
Cloud Architecture: Extensive experience architecting solutions on major public cloud platforms (e.g. GCP) to build scalable data systems (e.g. with Apache Beam, GCS) 
 
Performance Engineering: Deep experience profiling and optimizing high-throughput data systems. Demonstrated ability to debug distributed bottlenecks (e.g., stragglers, I/O saturation), optimize data formats and provide efficient data storage solutions. 
 
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant . 
 
Pay &amp; 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 $181,100 and $318,400, 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 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.

Senior Research Engineer, Training Data Infrastructure in Foundation Models

Imagine what you could do here! The people here at Apple don&rsquo;t just build products - we craft the kind of wonder that&rsquo;s revolutionized entire industries. It&rsquo;s the diversity of those people and their ideas that supports the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. 
 
The Creativity Apps team is looking for a software Image Quality Integrity Engineer with photos, video editing background to contribute to the production of innovative tools for creative professionals, video makers and visual storytellers. It requires a highly proactive individual with strong creative, technical and analytic skills and passion for new technologies related to computer vision/on device machine learning. 
 
Description 
 
In this role, you will be responsible for planning, designing, maintaining and executing test cases with minimal direction. Your ability to free test, without scripts and tools, will be paramount. Report bugs with outstanding isolation and regression techniques will be the key to your success. This role requires balancing a wide variety of deliverables that will rely on your talent for managing priorities and communicating progress and risks effectively and systematically. Your ongoing curiosity and dedication to self-education in video technologies as well as new testing techniques is what will set you apart. You will be working closely with other team members to help coordinate multi-functional test efforts. You will be in continual dialogue with Engineering and Design as products evolve and you will need to have compassion for users so you can effectively advocate on their behalf. The ability to streamline processes for data collection and systematically parse large data sets will be a huge plus. 
 
Preferred Qualifications 
 
Experience as a professional photographer in a competitive industry 
 
Analytical, methodical, inquisitive and persistent problem solver committed to driving quality forward 
 
Proficient at balancing multiple efforts simultaneously and meeting strict deadlines 
 
Can extract user scenarios from software feature descriptions and requirements to translate them into effective test plans and cases. 
 
Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written) 
 
Ability to abstract technical details and effectively communicate to audiences at different levels 
 
Minimum Qualifications 
 
Experience with digital photography, video with a deep understanding of photography: Exposure settings, WB, depth-of-field, bokeh, sharpening, denoising, HDR, etc. 
 
Understanding of subjective/objective image quality evaluation, and color science concepts 
 
Develop a testing methodology to gather input on subjective image/video quality changes 
 
Designing and conducting experiments, Iterating through various parameters to optimize image/video quality 
 
Competency in applying photographic best practices and techniques 
 
Have some understanding of computational photography and machine learning 
 
Proficient with Image editing software 
 
QA Engineer experience is highly desired 
 
Strong presentation skills and ability to adapt to various audiences. 
 
iOS and macOS familiarity 
 
Understanding of UX principals 
 
Bachelor's degree in Color Science, Image Processing, or a related technical field. 
 
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant . 
 
Pay &amp; 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 $118,500 and $244,100, 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 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.

Software Image Quality Engineer - Creativity Apps

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