ML Compute Efficiency Automation Engineer, Infrastructure & Planning

Apple Inc

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Location
Cupertino, CA
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$184,700–$324,800 / yr
Posted
131 days ago
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TL;DR · ML Compute Efficiency Automation Engineer, Infrastructure & Planning

The ML Compute Efficiency Automation Engineer, Infrastructure & Planning joins the Platform Acceleration & Compute Efficiency team to optimize the machine learning ecosystem. This role focuses on maximizing hardware utilization across GPUs, TPUs, and custom Apple Silicon while ensuring foundation models run reliably and cost-effectively. You will build automated systems to manage resource requests, capacity allocation, and workload scheduling, replacing manual operations with self-correcting tooling. Key responsibilities include hunting down inefficiencies in inference and training workloads, designing telemetry schemas, and developing anomaly detection. Required skills include Python, SQL, and experience with data products like Tableau, Looker, or Grafana. You will solve complex infrastructure problems by architecting scalable systems that handle high-demand ML workloads, ultimately improving development velocity and compute efficiency across the organization.

What you'll do

  • Build systems of record for resource requests, allocations, and utilization to govern compute as code.
  • Identify and fix inefficiencies in ML inference and training workloads across GPUs, TPUs, and Apple Silicon.
  • Solve core optimization problems regarding scheduling, capacity allocation, and serving costs.
  • Automate manual workflows, triage, and reporting to eliminate operational toil and manual escalations.
  • Develop telemetry, schemas, and anomaly detection to surface efficiency and cost opportunities.
  • Re-architect processes that buckle under scale to ensure they grow with usage instead of headcount.
  • Create reusable tooling to provide long-term infrastructure support for the broader team.

What we're looking for

  • BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6 or more years of experience building production software, automation, tooling, or data and infrastructure systems.
  • Strong programming skills in Python or similar languages for automation, pipelines, and tooling.
  • Proficiency with SQL and experience creating dashboards or data products in tools like Tableau, Looker, or Grafana.
  • Experience designing data models or telemetry schemas for infrastructure, capacity, or utilization data.
  • Experience running complex systems in large-scale compute, cloud, or infrastructure environments.
  • Production experience shipping automated or autonomous workflows (preferred).
  • Understanding of ML training and inference infrastructure, GPU/TPU utilization, and foundation model serving (preferred).

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