Apple

AI Inference Platform Engineer

Apple$130K — $155K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • Solid understanding of AI/ML inference architecture and performance characteristics.
  • Experience with performance and infrastructure engineering in distributed systems.
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, C++, or similar programming languages.
  • Expertise in automation engineering, tooling, and data pipelines.
  • Strong knowledge of GPU/accelerator architecture for AI workloads.
  • Practical statistical knowledge for performance analysis and forecasting.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build tooling and analysis systems for AI infrastructure.
  • Develop performance benchmarking systems to measure AI platform efficiency.
  • Create capacity projection models to inform infrastructure planning.
  • Analyze data to provide actionable insights for scaling and optimization.
  • Detect regressions in systems before they reach production.
  • Collaborate with engineers and planners to enhance decision-making based on data.
  • Foster a real-time understanding of performance metrics across the infrastructure.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work at the forefront of AI systems and infrastructure.
  • Engage in a high-impact role shaping the future of technology.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with diverse teams and experts.
  • Contribute to projects that influence hardware investment and performance.
  • Access to advanced tools and methodologies for innovative engineering.
Full Job Description
We are looking for an engineer to build tooling, automation, and analysis capabilities that strengthen our AI inference platform. This role will focus on developing sophisticated performance benchmarking systems, capacity projection models, and data analysis pipelines that directly inform our AI infrastructure teams and capacity planners. You'll work at the intersection of AI systems performance, distributed infrastructure, and software engineering to help the team make data-driven decisions about scaling and optimizing our inference platform.

Description

As part of our next-generation datacenter engineering team, you will play a critical role in shaping how we understand, measure, and grow our AI infrastructure. You will design and build the tooling and analysis systems that give our engineers and capacity planners a clear, real-time picture of performance across our fleet. Your work will directly influence how we invest in hardware, how we detect regressions before they reach production, and how we forecast capacity needs months in advance.

This is a high-impact, cross-functional role for an engineer who is energized by complexity, thrives on turning raw data into actionable insight, and wants to work on problems that matter at massive scale.

Minimum Qualifications

BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field.

Solid understanding of AI/ML inference architecture and the performance characteristics of serving systems.

Experience with performance and infrastructure engineering in distributed systems.

Proficiency in Python, Go, C++, or other programming languages.

Experience with automation engineering, tooling, and data pipelines to support engineering workflows.

Strong knowledge of GPU/accelerator architecture as it relates to AI workloads.

Practical statistical knowledge applicable to performance analysis and forecasting.

Excellent communication skills and ability to turn data into clear guidance for infrastructure teams and capacity planners.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with performance benchmarking and methodologies for AI/ML inference systems.

Familiarity with capacity planning and forecasting/projection models for large-scale infrastructure.

Experience with GPU profiling and observability tools (e.g., Nsight, other vendor-specific profilers).

Experience with data visualization and reporting tools/frameworks for surfacing performance trends to stakeholders.

Familiarity with ML serving frameworks and runtimes (e.g., Triton, TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, or similar).

Experience with CI/CD and workflow orchestration tools for building automated performance analysis pipelines.

Knowledge of cluster schedulers and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes).

Experience with metrics and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk).

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
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Revenue
$294.1 billion
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