ML Scientist - Operations Business Process Reengineering, Advanced Analytics

Summary

Posted: Dec 18, 2024

Role Number:200508810

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Are you interested in applying your quantitative skills in a fast paced tech environment? If so, then this is the job for you. The Worldwide Sales and Operations Advanced Analytics team is looking for an experienced ML Scientist with a deep passion for analytical solutions that have direct and measurable impact to Apple and its customers. You will design, build and deploy predictive and prescriptive end-to-end solutions for strategic and tactical supply chain decision-making. In this role, you will have a history of engaging with business teams to find opportunities, driving critical projects, building and sustaining production applications and working collaboratively across teams to get things done.

Description

As an ML Scientist, we look forward to your implementing data science pipelines and applications in a general programming language such as Python, Scala, Java or C++ - Deliver data analytics to the organization at scale as a key member of a small team of experts - Design and develop Machine Learning based models to solve complex supply chain problems, with a focus on predictive analytics and forecasting - Build large scale execution models in ambiguous environments - Collaborate effectively with other business partners (supply demand planners, retail team, apple care etc.), peer data scientists, and IT groups - Determine essential tradeoffs within the models and take an active role in clearly communicating the recommendations to senior management

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years practical experience solving real world problems and understanding of algorithms for classification, regression, clustering, and anomaly detection
• BTech in Computer Science or IT / MBA from a premier school

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with database modeling, data warehousing principles and SQL
• Familiarity with big data technologies eg: Hadoop, Spark, Hive
• Ability to comprehend and debug complex systems integrations spanning tools and teams. Strong critical thinking and problem solving ability
• Sound communication skills - adept at messaging domain and technical content, at a level appropriate for the audience.
• Innate curiosity and bias to action with expert ability to identify, define and execute project plans and develop modeling approaches suitable for the problem
• Strong partner - invested in the collective success of the team and project outcomes
• Self-sufficient with an ability to thrive in an environment of autonomy amidst ambiguity
• Experience with data acquisition tools (e.g. SQL), data mining and data visualization
• Experience prototyping and developing software in programming languages (Java/C++/Python/Perl)
• Supply chain operations planning and material management experience and/or prior role in supporting supply chain business processes preferred
• Experience with large data sets, big data and analytics
• Strong communication and presentation skills