Machine Learning & Signal Processing Algorithms Engineer
At Apple, novel algorithms quickly have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. This is your opportunity to be part of a world class research and engineering team building the next-generation of advanced algorithms for sensing technologies in iPhone, iPad, Pencil, Watch and more. Our group has diverse backgrounds in machine learning, signal and image processing, statistics, estimation theory, control, physics and human factors. You will be responsible for helping develop innovative solutions to challenging technical problems and delivering key product features on time and with high quality. You will need sufficient engineering breadth to have productive conversations with firmware and software teams, hardware technology teams, mechanical engineers, designers, and many other specialists across Apple. Knowledge of machine learning, signal processing, probabilistic modeling, statistics and embedded programming will increase your effectiveness in this position.
This is a key position at a focal point of HW/SW/UI integration with lots of collaboration opportunities among different fields. Starting from early in the product lifecycle, this engineer will analyze sensor data, design algorithms to preprocess data, extract feature and prototype algorithms to enable expected user interactions. Communicate the findings back to the team and leadership and closely collaborate on HW/SW co-design to find the best solution for the ultimate user experience. You will closely collaborate with partner teams throughout the product life cycle, developing figure of metrics to guarantee algorithm performance at different stages, design and implement algorithmic mitigations as needed, provide critical support during production phase, support new form factors and design and implement new user facing features. Your experience with designing algorithms to process time series sensor data and extract features that can enable user interactions along with rapid prototyping skills to show proof of concept and on-device implementation would be essential. Experience with user interface design will further help broaden your role and effectiveness in this position.
- Background in signal processing, time series analysis, adaptive filters, machine learning, linear algebra, statistics, etc.
- Software programming skills in C, C++ and Python (embedded/resource constrained implementation for algorithms)
- Experience with object-oriented programming and common design patterns
- BS and a minimum of 3 years relevant industry experience.
- Ph.D. degree in CS (preferred), or other STEM fields such as EE, or Statistics.
- M.S. in CS with at least 2 years of experience in research and development of embedded algorithms
- Rapid prototyping experience with embedded systems
- Experience in human computer interaction (HCI) space
- Experience in designing user study protocols and data analysis
- Familiarity with cloud processing platforms like AWS/GCP
- Excellent communication, presentation, and documentation skill.
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