Senior Research Scientist, Apple Media Products
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![]() United States, Washington, Seattle | |
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Summary
Posted: Nov 26, 2023 Weekly Hours: 40 Role Number: 200520071 The Apple Media Products Engineering team is one of the most exciting examples of Apple's long-held passion for combining art and technology. These are the people who power the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books. And they do it on a massive scale, meeting Apple's high expectations with dedication to deliver a huge variety of entertainment in over 35 languages to more than 150 countries. The Apple Media Products Evaluation team is looking for a researcher to design, coordinate, implement, and monitor research studies which enable the development and validation of machine learning models. Moreover, the person in this role will work to identify new and innovative opportunities to achieve impact. In this role, you will reveal what our users need from our products by conducting both primary and secondary research, exploring the behaviors and motivations of our users, and working with teams of Data Scientists, Product Managers, Engineers, and others to develop new evaluation methodologies and user research studies. You'll inspire change at all stages of product development by delivering exciting oral, written, and visual presentations about our findings. Most importantly, your job as a researcher is to help the Evaluation team understand what would make a user's experiences feel more intuitive, accessible, fun-and even magical! With considerable experience, you evaluate all the features contributing to user experience and behavior, providing expertise, collaborating internally and occasionally leading projects. You contribute new processes and identify product and use requirements. You will combine broad skills in experimental design, machine learning, statistical analysis, programming, and behavioral science theory/methods to shape the product and research direction for products used and loved by all Apple customers. You will identify and quantify problems, and embark on new research areas worth exploring through innovative methods by applying principles of rigorous and ethical research to build and improve products that satisfy users' needs and exceed their expectations. Key Qualifications Key Qualifications
Description Description Examine existing data, product designs, and prior research to identify research gaps. Work on unusually complex technical problems, providing solutions that are highly innovative and inventive, impacting Apple and/or industry Maintain up-to-date knowledge of academic research and attend conferences that are relevant to problems machine learning teams are working on, and determine approaches to apply that research to our work Find opportunities to improve the capabilities we deliver in terms of revenue and profitability, performance, explainability, stability, robustness, etc. Work with team leadership to set research and development roadmap to deliver benefit to Evaluation, designing and suggesting improvements across multiple domains Disseminate research concepts and frameworks via workshops, presentations, and collaboration Communicate at all levels of the company, presenting hypotheses, proposals, and experimental results, and making valuable contributions to the discussion of such contributions from colleagues in internal, Apple wide, and external professional settings Draw on research literature to advise the team in taking scientifically informed and well-considered risks in our pursuit of solutions to difficult technical problems Navigate across Apple, pulling in peers where needed and providing valuable expertise across the company Education & Experience Education & Experience PhD or Master’s degree (PhD preferred) in Psychology, Behavioral Science/Economics, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Social Science, Human-Computer Interaction or related field. Additional Requirements Additional Requirements Pay & Benefits Pay & Benefits
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