Pre-Silicon Compute Frameworks Lead (GPU/ML)

Apple Inc.; Cupertino, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 206,000 - 356,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Retirement benefits

Employee stock plan

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California, seeks an engineering manager to lead the Pre-silicon Compute Frameworks team, guiding API development and performance analysis across Metal and Metal compute frameworks for future Apple Silicon GPUs.

You will partner with leaders across software and hardware to propose, develop, and evaluate hardware features from emulation through silicon, while mentoring engineers and aligning with product roadmaps.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD or equivalent in Computer Science or related field.
• 2-3 years as a manager or lead.
• Strong grasp of at least one GPU compute API (Metal/CUDA/OpenCL).
• Good understanding of ML fundamentals and familiarity with ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, CoreML).
• Knowledge of Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, and CPU/GPU programming.
• Strong background in C/C++ programming.

Responsibilities

• Lead, support, and grow the Pre-silicon Compute Framework team to deliver software, representing Apple’s roadmap for compute and ML technologies during hardware development.
• Provide direction and guidance to ensure the team designs APIs that enable developers to make full use of new hardware features in the simplest way possible.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure our software and hardware roadmap includes state-of-the-art features and performance.
• Contribute to the bring-up of new chips and products using our new GPUs.

Skills

Metal API

CUDA

OpenCL

C/C++ programming

OS & Computer Architecture

ML frameworks

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS or related field

Tools

Metal

CUDA

OpenCL

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California, seeks an engineering manager to lead the Pre-silicon Compute Frameworks team, guiding API development and performance analysis across Metal and Metal compute frameworks for future Apple Silicon GPUs.

You will partner with leaders across software and hardware to propose, develop, and evaluate hardware features from emulation through silicon, while mentoring engineers and aligning with product roadmaps.