Senior Data Scientist (Find My)
Core
Building and optimizing large-scale spatiotemporal models for Apple's Find My service to locate lost devices using a crowd-sourced network of billions of devices.
Role type
Senior IC data scientist (geospatial & time-series)
Builds
Production ML models for device localization and signal detection
Domain
Consumer hardware, geospatial analytics, privacy-sensitive data
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
geospatial fundamentals (geometry, spatial joins, coordinate reference systems), raw sensor data processing, classical predictive modeling (scikit-learn, XGBoost), time-series forecasting (Prophet, ARIMA), deep learning (PyTorch), spatial databases (PostGIS, Apache Sedona), distributed spatial processing
Preferred skills
location-heavy domain experience (mobility, logistics, mapping), big data optimization for spatial joins, advanced Python scripting, privacy constraint handling (aggregation, differential privacy), reproducible engineering handoffs
