Apple

Machine Learning Compute Efficiency Lead, Infrastructure & Planning

Apple$150K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • MS or PhD in a relevant field
  • Direct experience with foundation model serving, inference, and training at scale
  • Familiarity with PyTorch, JAX, and cluster management tools (Slurm, Kubernetes)
  • Prior experience in efficiency, FinOps, or capacity planning
  • Experience negotiating technical roadmaps with platform or infrastructure teams
  • Background in TCO modeling and cost optimization

Responsibilities

  • Own and support ML compute management for inference workloads across GPU, TPU, and custom silicon.
  • Collaborate with Apple Intelligence and ML engineering teams to develop resource strategies based on roadmaps and pain points.
  • Drive performance improvements and maximize resource utilization to reduce service costs through detailed analysis.
  • Architect solutions to optimize capacity allocation, workload scheduling, and cost efficiency for large-scale ML problems.
  • Advocate for ML engineers by consolidating platform and model inference requirements to internal infrastructure and third-party cloud providers.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance packages
  • Retirement savings plan with company match
  • Generous paid time off policy
  • Employee discounts on Apple products
  • Opportunities for professional development and career advancement
Full Job Description
As foundation models become increasingly central to Apple's user experiences, maximizing the efficiency of our ML compute is paramount. In this role, you will focus relentlessly on compute efficiency, ensuring that Apple's models run as fast, reliably, and cost-effectively as possible. You will tackle massive optimization challenges, from maximizing hardware utilization across GPUs, TPUs, and custom Apple Silicon, to shaping workload scheduling and capacity allocation for large model serving.\n\nWe are seeking a Senior Architect with deep expertise in ML infrastructure to act as a linchpin for Apple's foundational inference strategy. You will be instrumental in defining, establishing, and monitoring compute efficiency metrics across the software engineering organization. By partnering closely with model developers and infrastructure providers, your work will directly reduce serving costs, shape core engineering decisions, and enable the highly efficient, scalable inference required to power Apple Intelligence for hundreds of millions of users.

- Own and support ML compute management for Apple's inference workloads (GPU, TPU, and custom silicon) to enable large-scale model serving. - Collaborate closely with Apple Intelligence and ML engineering teams to understand roadmaps and resource pain points to develop and implement resource strategies. - Optimize Apple's ML workloads by driving performance improvements, maximizing resource utilization, and reducing service costs through deep root cause analysis that shapes both engineering decisions and the end customer experience. - Architect solutions for large-scale optimization problems, including capacity allocation, workload scheduling, and cost reduction, enabling Apple's AI-driven experiences. - Advocate on behalf of Apple's ML engineers to bring a consolidated view of ML platform and model inference requirements to Apple's internal infrastructure platform providers and 3rd party public cloud providers.

MS or PhD in a relevant field Direct experience with foundation model serving, inference, and training at scale Familiarity with PyTorch, JAX, cluster management (Slurm, Kubernetes), or GPU/TPU hardware Prior experience in efficiency, FinOps, or capacity planning Experience negotiating technical roadmaps with platform or infrastructure teams Background in technical and financial decision-making (TCO modeling, cost optimization)

MS or PhD in a relevant field Direct experience with foundation model serving, inference, and training at scale Familiarity with PyTorch, JAX, cluster management (Slurm, Kubernetes), or GPU/TPU hardware Prior experience in efficiency, FinOps, or capacity planning Experience negotiating technical roadmaps with platform or infrastructure teams Background in technical and financial decision-making (TCO modeling, cost optimization)

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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