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Apple
Full time
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USA
10/16/2026
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Cupertino, CA

Responsibilities

Set technical strategy and execution direction for Apple’s web-scale data acquisition platform.
Design systems that crawl, store, and deliver exabytes of web content and images.
Lead crawl strategy, prioritization, data-quality scoring, relevance decisions, and continuous improvement of acquisition policies.
Shape scalable storage and compute architecture and downstream data-consumption patterns.
Partner with crawl infrastructure, search indexing, AI research, and foundation-model teams.
Advise senior leadership on architecture direction, technical risk, and resourcing.
Mentor senior engineers and influence organization-level architecture decisions.

Requirements

12+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, including petabyte- or exabyte-class storage, compute, or data pipelines.
Production experience applying machine learning to data quality, ranking, relevance, or prioritization problems.
A track record of setting technical direction across multiple teams as a senior technical lead.
Experience partnering with ML or AI research teams to translate model needs into infrastructure and data requirements.
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science required; M.S. or Ph.D. preferred.
Experience with web crawling, search indexing, or large-scale content pipelines preferred.
Familiarity with training-data pipelines for large language or foundation models preferred.
Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing organization-level architecture decisions preferred.

Apple

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