Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Ads Auction

In this role, you are responsible for designing the core auction system that powers our advertising platform to drive optimal outcomes for advertisers, users, and our platform. You will have the opportunity to build the next generation solutions for marketplace optimization that enable driving optimal value for multiple stakeholders in the system. You will have the opportunity to apply your ability to move the state of the art techniques in a fast growing business that positively impacts publishers, developers and Apple users at global scale. The ability to be a great teammate under tight deadline constraints is key to success. Minimum Qualifications 5+ years of experience working in online advertising, marketplace design, or large-scale recommendation/auction systems Strong background in auction theory, mechanism design, optimization, statistics, or machine learning. Ability to apply and implement research concepts, ultimately in production quality code Experience defining clear, testable research hypotheses, including intended impact on the business Deep knowledge of design of experiments, online experimentation approaches, preferably at scale Ability to formulate and advocate for R&D objectives and results to cross-functional team members including executive business leadership and product management Experience contributing and/or reviewing research for top conferences and publications Deep fluency in Java or Python. Experience with Spark, Hadoop or other distributed frameworks. PhD in Economics, Operations Research, Machine Learning, Statistics, Control Theory, Forecasting, Optimization, Reinforcement Learning or related field with experience building production systems or have equivalent experience working with large data science / machine learning projects in industry. Preferred Qualifications Experience in ads optimization, recommendations, or search relevance optimization is highly preferred