Here at Apple new ideas have a way of becoming great products very quickly, and innovation never stops. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish.The Music ML team at Apple Media Products is responsible for personalisation and recommendation in Apple Music. We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to help design and run our customer-facing services reliably, efficiently, and with dedication to delivering to our users the music they will love to listen to. Music is our passion, and our aim is to connect artists to music lovers like ourselves. We build amazing experiences for our users while respecting their privacy. Our team is a friendly bunch of people from more than 8 countries and 4 continents. 

We help each other grow and realise the best work for our users.We’re also part of a larger team at Apple Media Products and beyond. We work together to realise a single unified vision, making use of Apple’s unique integration of hardware, software, and services. And although services are a bigger part of Apple’s business than ever before, these teams remain small, nimble, and cross-functional, offering great opportunities to collaborate and grow.

Key Qualifications

• Proven experience in crafting, implementing and scaling systems and services in Java
• Desire to communicate effectively with engineers and scientists in a helpful atmosphere
• Ability to translate product requirements into system designs spanning multiple datasets and services
• Demonstrable knowledge of algorithms & data structures
• Experience with data analysis and visualisation
• Passion for music a huge plus

Description

The Music ML team at Apple Media Products is looking for a great Software Engineer to build and improve the features and services driving Apple Music personalisation.Our team is responsible for providing personalised features for Apple Music including Radio, Listen Now, and Personal Mixes. Our work includes data analysis, large-scale offline pipelines, machine-learned model training and inference, and online services to provide real-time personalised experiences. 

Here you have a phenomenal opportunity to help build and evolve global-scale, leading-edge dynamic data systems as we grow our amazing London team.We are responsible for the full lifecycle: collaboration with the Product team, system design, implementation, continuous optimisation and improvement. WHAT YOU WILL BE WORKING ON:- Building products and services for millions of users with a focus on great customer experience and privacy- Developing complex systems that integrate data from many sources to deliver on-the-fly personalisation at low latencies- Tuning performance considering both latency and throughput- Deploying our systems globally for improved resiliency and end-user experience- Collaborating across teams to take new user-facing features from conception to production- Working within our team to develop and deploy massive datasets to improve personsalised features- Prototyping algorithm changes and launching A/B tests to measure changes to personalised productsIf this sounds exciting to you, we’d love to hear from you. 

Adding a cover letter to explain your passion for this particular job is greatly appreciated.

Additional Requirements

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• We take affirmative action to ensure 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. Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.