AIML - Sr. Software Engineer, Spotlight Search Infrastructure
Cupertino, California, United States
Machine Learning and AI
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great
product, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication
to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish.
The Apple AI/ML Information Intelligence team is building best-in-class, privacy-aware
search experiences in Spotlight - the search engine on every iPhone and Mac. You will
be part of the team that builds and optimizes the core systems that store, index and
search user data on device in a secure, privacy-aware manner. You will partner with
apps and other teams across Apple to redefine how users search.
The ideal candidate should be excited about building systems that are powerful enough
to support a wide range of user experiences, and yet responsive and efficient enough to
run on any device. The expected impact of your work will be to delight millions of Apple
customers who rely on Apple devices for every aspect of daily life.
Key Qualifications
- Proficiency in C++
- Interest in low-level, high performance systems
- Strong background in fundamental systems concepts such as multithreading,
- concurrency, memory management, persistent indexes, crash recovery,
- algorithms, data structures, system design
- Strong communication skills
Description
You will work on the core storage, indexing and search systems that power on-device
Spotlight search over data on all iOS and macOS devices. You are passionate about
building performant and well-designed systems and are able to learn existing systems
quickly to understand how to bring them to the next level. You are dedicated to doing
whatever needs to be done to delight users, whether it be designing or building new
components, optimizing low-level system performance and resource usage, or
extending and modifying existing systems to enable new search features.
Education & Experience
Bachelor or Master degree in a related field, or equivalent experience
Additional Requirements
- • Experience with systems (e.g., database internals, operating systems, file
- systems, or embedded systems) a plus, but not required
- • Experience with text indexing and search systems a plus, but not required
- • Experience with performance, memory or storage optimization a plus, but not
- required
- • Ability to learn new technologies quickly
- • Excellent communication and teamwork skills