Apple

AIML - Staff ML Infrastructure Engineer, ML Platform & Technology - Pre-training Infrastructure

Apple$175K — $210K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in high-performance ML or distributed systems
  • Proficient in Python or equivalent programming languages
  • Strong grasp of distributed systems and performance optimization techniques
  • Experience with profiling and optimizing compute-intensive workloads
  • Excellent communicator with the ability to work collaboratively
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Responsibilities

  • Drive performance optimization for large-scale foundation model training on TPUs
  • Profile and optimize JAX/XLA workloads to enhance efficiency and throughput
  • Develop high-performance TPU kernels for ML operations like attention and MoE
  • Optimize distributed training techniques and collective communication strategies
  • Research and implement new techniques to boost end-to-end training performance
  • Create profiling and automated tuning capabilities for large-scale training workloads
  • Collaborate with engineers to address large-scale ML training challenges
  • Lead complex technical projects and mentor other engineers

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and growth
  • Collaborative and innovative team culture
  • Access to cutting-edge machine learning technologies
  • Engagement in leading-edge research and implementation
  • Mentoring opportunities within a cross-functional environment
Full Job Description
Description

As an engineer on the ML Compute team, your work will include:

* Drive performance optimization for large-scale foundation model training on TPUs, focusing on efficiency, throughput, and scalability

* Profile and optimize JAX/XLA workloads across compute, memory, communication, and compilation.

* Develop and optimize high-performance TPU kernels for critical ML operations such as attention and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)

* Optimize distributed training techniques, sharding strategies, and collective communication over TPU interconnects (ICI/Fabric)

* Research and implement new techniques across the JAX, XLA, and TPU stack to improve end-to-end training performance

* Develop performance profiling, benchmarking, and automated tuning capabilities for large-scale training workloads.

* Collaborate with cross-functional engineers to solve large-scale ML training challenges

* Lead complex technical projects and mentor engineers in areas of your expertise

* Cultivate a team centered on collaboration, technical excellence, and innovation

Minimum Qualifications

6+ years of experience building or optimizing high-performance ML or distributed systems

Proficient in Python or other relevant programming languages

Strong understanding of distributed systems, parallel computing, and performance optimization

Experience profiling and optimizing compute-, memory-, or communication-intensive workloads

Ability to clearly communicate complex technical problems and collaborate with partners to develop solutions

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Experience with accelerators such as TPU or GPU and understanding of accelerator architecture and performance characteristics

Experience with JAX, XLA, PyTorch or other ML compiler/runtime stacks

Experience developing or optimizing accelerator kernels using Pallas, Triton, CUDA, or similar technologies

Experience optimizing large-scale foundation model training and distributed communication

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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154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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