Sr. Staff / Distinguished Engineer
Core
Lead technical strategy and execution for Apple's web-scale data acquisition platform, powering Siri, Spotlight, Apple Maps, and foundation models by managing exabyte-scale crawling, storage, and ML-driven prioritization.
Role type
Sr. Staff / Distinguished Engineer (Distributed Systems & Machine Learning)
Builds
Exabyte-scale data pipelines for search ranking and AI model training
Domain
Internet infrastructure, Distributed systems, Machine Learning
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Distributed systems architecture, Machine learning for data prioritization, Exabyte-scale data pipeline design, Technical strategy setting, Cross-team collaboration, System scalability
Preferred skills
Web crawling expertise, Search indexing, LLM training data pipelines, Senior engineering mentorship
Technologies
Distributed storage systems, Compute clusters, ML frameworks, Web crawlers
Responsibilities
Define technical direction for data acquisition strategy, Design scalable storage and compute architecture, Apply ML to data quality and relevance scoring, Partner with AI research and search teams, Influence org-level architecture decisions, Navigate large-scale technical tradeoffs
