Senior Software Engineer, ML Build & Release Quality

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$175,000–$308,500 / yr
Posted
134 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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This role $242k
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Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, ML Build & Release Quality

Senior Software Engineer, ML Build & Release Quality - Private Cloud Computing joins the Private Cloud Compute team to drive test strategy, automation infrastructure, and validation frameworks for complex distributed systems. This role focuses on ensuring the quality and reliability of next-generation datacenter technology powered by Apple Silicon. You will manage build pipelines for LLMs, oversee model weights across release trains, and automate staged rollouts while leading incident response for inference issues. The position requires expertise in large-scale build systems using C++, Swift, and Python toolchains, alongside experience with CI/CD at scale. Key responsibilities include collaborating with hardware and platform teams to validate novel compute platforms and building tooling that enables rapid deployment. You will solve technical challenges at the hardware-software boundary, focusing on performance profiling for high-performance computing workloads in a private cloud environment.

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What you'll do

  • Perform daily build qualification and provide recommendations for staging and production releases.
  • Own the build pipeline for Large Language Models (LLMs) on Private Cloud Compute.
  • Manage model weights across OS release trains and server-side updates.
  • Automate staged rollouts across OS and Private Cloud Compute releases.
  • Develop test strategies, automation infrastructure, and validation frameworks for distributed systems.
  • Lead incident response and conduct postmortems for inference release issues.
  • Validate novel compute platforms in collaboration with hardware and platform teams.

What we're looking for

  • 10 or more years of experience in release engineering, build infrastructure, and production releases.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience; Master's or PhD preferred.
  • Expertise with large-scale build systems and C++, Swift, and Python toolchains.
  • Experience with CI/CD at scale including cost management, cache optimization, and flake reduction.
  • Proven track record of meeting strict deadlines for OS or hardware launches.
  • Experience validating ML or LLM workloads on GPUs, NPUs, or Apple Silicon in datacenter environments.
  • Familiarity with building test infrastructure for firmware, drivers, or low-level platform software.
  • Knowledge of energy efficiency and performance profiling for high-performance computing workloads.

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