ML Software Engineer, London

Lex; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking a software engineer to help evolve private cloud compute and ML inference on Apple Silicon. You will integrate inference code into a full service stack, ensuring reliable, scalable user traffic handling across disparate hardware IP blocks and SoCs.

You will work with Swift, C/C++, and XCode on large production systems, evaluating models for quality and performance while collaborating across product teams worldwide.

Qualifications

• Experience working as a software engineer on large production systems.
• Experience programming in: Swift, C, C++, iOS/macOS or XCode.
• Practical experience running machine learning models and evaluating them for quality and performance metrics.
• Familiar with Apple ML stack (ANE, CoreML, MPS/Metal) and distributed ML stacks.

Responsibilities

• Quality focus - produce reliable, maintainable, deliverable software
• Comfortable diving deep - working across multiple levels of abstraction
• Good at handling relationships & communication - collaborate well with colleagues across a wide range of functions

Skills

Swift

C

C++

iOS/macOS

XCode

Tools

XCode

Job description

Summary

People at Apple don't just build products — they craft the kind of experience that has revolutionized entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas inspire innovation in everything we do.

Our team builds ML-inference applications and services on Apple Silicon in the datacenter, specifically focusing in recent years on generative AI as part of the Private Cloud Compute component of Apple Intelligence.

Imagine what you could do here! Join us. Be you.

Description

As part of the team you will help engineer continuous improvements in stability and performance for private cloud compute, as well as help implement entirely new functionality as it emerges from the research community, in collaboration with product teams throughout Apple.

We write performant and scalable frameworks (in Swift and C++) to distribute and coordinate ML inference tasks to different hardware acceleration IP blocks on different SoCs.

We’re a collection of highly skilled and friendly engineers who value each other’s opinions and experience. We strive for excellence and believe strongly in the quality of our output. We have formed a team of domain experts who specializes in specific core subject areas, and also have broad experience of cloud software services and platforms.

You will integrate inference code into a full service stack to ensure that user traffic is served reliably and performantly, and will have a strong focus on developing code that is easy and safe to develop, update and monitor.

Responsibilities

• Quality focus - produce reliable, maintainable, deliverable software
• Comfortable diving deep - working across multiple levels of abstraction
• Good at handling relationships & communication - collaborate well with colleagues across a wide range of functions

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience working as a software engineer on large production systems
• Experience programming in: Swift, C, C++, iOS/macOS or XCode
• Practical experience running machine learning models and evaluating them for quality and performance metrics

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiar with Apple ML stack (ANE, CoreML, MPS/Metal),
• High-level general distributed ML stack (PyTorch-distributed, NCCL) and high throughput inter-chip communication systems.
• On-device iOS development

At Apple, we're not all the same. And that's our greatest strength. We draw on the differences in who we are, what we've experienced and how we think. Because to create products that serve everyone, we believe in including everyone. Therefore, we are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally. As a registered Disability Confident employer, we will work with applicants to make any reasonable accommodations. Apple will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal backgrounds in a manner consistent with applicable law. Learn more

At Apple, we believe accessibility is a fundamental human right. You’ll find that idea reflected in everything here — in our culture, our benefits and our digital tools. By welcoming as many perspectives as possible, we help you build a career where you feel like you belong.

Learn about accessibility in Apple’s workplace

Role Number: 200626867-2114