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Director of Algorithms, Ads Engineering

Cupertino, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-12 → 2026-09-28

Core

Lead applied scientists and ML engineers to build and scale intelligence for Apple's advertising ecosystem, including retrieval, ranking, auction, and budget optimization systems.

Role type

Director of Algorithms (Ads Engineering)

Builds

State-of-the-art retrieval, ranking, auction, and budget optimization systems for Apple Services (App Store, Apple News, Maps, MLS Season Pass)

Domain

Advertising technology, Machine Learning, Recommendation Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine Learning, Applied Science, Software Engineering, Engineering Leadership, Algorithm Engineering, Signals Processing, Predictive Modeling, Ranking, Embeddings, Transformer Architectures, Distillation, Reinforcement Learning, High-throughput Low-latency System Design

Preferred skills

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs), Ads Technology Domain, Ph.D. or Master's in CS/ML/AI/Statistics

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