Job Description

Apple Ads is seeking a Data Scientist to develop analytical solutions that enhance customer experience and drive business insights. The role involves collaborating with various teams to turn large data sets into actionable insights, particularly focusing on large language models and data science applications.

Requirements

3+ years of recent experience in a data science role.
Experience in statistical analysis, machine learning models, and advanced quantitative methods with a strong focus in causal inference.
Exceptional programming skills in Python and SQL.
Deep familiarity with commonly used Statistics and ML libraries such as ScikitLearn, SparkMLLib, SciPy, and/or StatsModels.
Demonstrated experience in applying statistics and machine learning to generate clear actionable insights.
Comfortable with a variety of data stores such as Hadoop, and Snowflake.
Possess exceptional communication skills to communicate analyses in a clear and effective manner to technical audience and executive leadership.
Bachelor's degree in a related field of study, or equivalent industry experience.

Responsibilities

Empower the product and sales teams with insights to advise and fulfill their strategic objectives and goals.
Monitor business metrics and identify key drivers for large scale trends and patterns in business health.
Fine-tune, and evaluate large language models for internal and customer-facing use cases.
Optimize prompt engineering and model performance for business-specific contexts.
Build reusable, interpretable models to identify key drivers of business performance.
Develop frameworks that allow teams to measure, visualize, and understand causal factors and business impact.
Partner with business stakeholders to translate strategic questions into analytical models and measurable KPIs.

Benefits

Employees at Apple are often offered comprehensive benefits that support physical and mental well-being—flexible medical plans, confidential counseling, onsite wellness centers at major campuses, and resources for fitness and daily life. Families typically receive fertility support, paid parental leave with gradual return, caregiving leave, and dependent-care guidance, while financial perks commonly include stock grants (with purchase discounts), 401(k) matching, and income-protection coverage. Employees also see robust time off, Apple University learning and tuition reimbursement, donation matching and paid volunteer hours, and deep product and partner discounts.