Apple

ML Model Integration Platform Eng

Apple$138K — $165K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering in production systems.
  • Strong background in distributed systems with a focus on scale and concurrency.
  • Experience designing and implementing internal tools and automation.
  • Ability to collaborate and influence cross-team decisions.
  • Holistic mindset to understand system-level trade-offs.
  • Comfortable in dynamic environments, creating structure as needed.
  • Proficient in C/C++, Python, SQL, and Shell scripting.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and design systems that integrate AI models into products.
  • Deliver platform components for Large Language Models and other AI functionalities.
  • Ensure robustness and scalability of systems around AI models.
  • Establish a foundation for deploying ML-powered features securely.
  • Collaborate with teams to enhance AI-driven experiences.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment promoting cross-team influence.
  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI technologies.
  • Focus on developing scalable and robust systems.
  • Dynamic work culture encouraging structure creation.
Full Job Description
Description

This role is for a Platform Engineer specializing in Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute. Your responsibilities will include architecting, designing, and delivering the systems and platform components that integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) and other AI models into Apple's products. This role establishes the foundation that enables teams to safely and effectively deploy ML-powered features. You will ensure the systems surrounding the models are robust, scalable, and easy for others to build on, becoming a key partner in the organization's delivery of AI-driven experiences. The ideal candidate is a systems thinker who can navigate fast moving requirements while maintaining a long-term vision for resilient and scalable solution.

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years of software engineering experience in building and operating production systems.

Strong background in distributed systems and an ability to reason about scale, concurrency, and failure modes.

Proven experience designing and implementing internal tools, automation, and service-level components.

Ability to collaborate closely across teams and influence decisions through clarity, empathy, and technical depth.

A holistic mindset-seeing beyond individual components to understand and communicate system-level trade-offs.

Comfortable working in dynamic, fast-changing environments where you help create structure, not wait for it.

Proficient in scripting and programming languages such as C/C++, Python, SQL, Shell

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

Preferred Qualifications

Understanding and practical experience with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes).

Solid background in one or more major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure), including familiarity with compute, storage, networking, and security services relevant to ML workloads.

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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