Apple

ML Compute Efficiency Automation Engineer, Infrastructure & Planning

Apple$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 6+ years in production software, automation, or infrastructure systems
  • Proven ability to design solutions that eliminate manual processes
  • Familiar with AI tooling and coding assistants in daily work
  • Strong programming skills in Python or similar languages
  • Experience with SQL and data visualization tools like Tableau or Grafana
  • Experience with complex systems in cloud or large scale compute environments

Responsibilities

  • Govern compute as code for accurate resource management
  • Identify and eliminate ML inefficiencies in workloads
  • Collaborate on optimization problems related to scheduling and capacity
  • Automate routine workflows to reduce manual effort
  • Develop telemetry and anomaly detection for operational efficiency
  • Re-architect processes to meet scaling demands
  • Create reusable tools for team-wide efficiency

Benefits

  • Flexible remote work options
  • Collaborative and innovative work environment
  • Opportunities for personal and professional growth
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and resources
  • Impactful work on large-scale ML infrastructure
Full Job Description
ML Compute Efficiency Automation Engineer, Infrastructure & Planning - Govern compute as code. Build the systems of record for resource requests, allocations, and utilization, accurate and at scale, so leadership can trust the numbers. - Hunt down ML inefficiency. Dig into inference and training workloads across GPUs, TPUs, and custom Apple Silicon, find where compute is wasted, trace it to a cause, and drive the fix. - Work the real optimization problems: scheduling, capacity allocation, and serving cost, alongside the engineers who own those systems. - Get rid of the toil. Replace the time-sink workflows, triage, reporting, reconciliation, with systems that handle the routine and pull a person in only when judgment matters. Drive manual escalations toward zero instead of standing up a tiered on call org. - Make the data useful. Build the telemetry, schemas, and anomaly detection that surface efficiency and cost opportunities, then wire them into tooling that acts rather than just files a report. - Rebuild what breaks at scale. When a process buckles under Apple scale ML demand, re-architect it so it grows with usage instead of headcount. - Make a lasting impact. Turn what you build into reusable tooling so the rest of the team benefits without coming back to you each time. BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. 6 or more years building production software, automation, tooling, or data and infrastructure systems. A problem solver who builds first. You have designed things from scratch to wipe out manual work or get past a scale ceiling, and you can show us something you built. Fluent with AI tooling. Coding assistants as part of how you already work, not something you read about. Strong programming skills, Python or similar, or automation, pipelines, and tooling. SQL, plus dashboards or data products in something like Tableau, Looker, or Grafana. Experience designing data models or telemetry schemas for infrastructure, capacity, or utilization data. Experience running complex systems in a large scale compute, cloud, or infrastructure environment. Experience knowing where not to automate, and how to guardrail systems that act on their own. Strong cross-team collaborator who moves work forward through influence rather than authority, and is comfortable owning systems others rely on daily. Production experience shipping automated or autonomous workflows Understanding of ML training and inference infrastructure, GPU and TPU utilization, training throughput, scheduling efficiency, and foundation model serving Experience building automated alerting or anomaly detection for infrastructure metrics Experience with FinOps, capacity planning, cloud cost management, or IT governance Knowledge of Django/Postgres Love for open-ended "go figure it out and build it" projects

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
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Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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