Senior Foundation Model Infra Architect

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee stock programs

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California invites applications for a Senior/Staff Engineer on the Foundation Model Compute Infrastructure team to design and build large-scale infrastructure powering foundation model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and inference.

You will develop model inference and fine-tuning services, onboard accelerators, benchmark technologies, and collaborate with researchers to improve reliability, performance, scalability, and developer productivity across Apple’s AI

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience building large-scale distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with distributed ML training or inference systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, C++, or similar systems languages.
• Experience with accelerator infrastructure such as TPU, GPU.
• Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, or large-scale cluster management systems.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering and research teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve large-scale model serving and fine-tuning services for foundation model workloads.
• Develop reliable infrastructure for model deployment, serving autoscaling, traffic management, job execution, container orchestration, and serving performance analysis.
• Improve the performance and usability of model serving and fine-tuning workloads by optimizing latency, throughput, availability, accelerator utilization, checkpoint loading, compilation caching, KV-cache-aware routing, and workflows for launching, monitoring, debugging, evaluating, and deploying models.
• Onboard and Benchmark new accelerator technologies into Apple’s compute infrastructure.
• Collaborate with the Apple Foundation Model team to integrate technologies such as Pathways, Ray, and Beam, or expose them as reliable and scalable services.
• Mentor engineers and partner across teams to influence the technical direction of Apple’s foundation model compute infrastructure.

Skills

Python

Go

C++

Distributed ML systems

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

MS or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Ray

Pathways

JAX

PyTorch

TensorFlow

vLLM

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California invites applications for a Senior/Staff Engineer on the Foundation Model Compute Infrastructure team to design and build large-scale infrastructure powering foundation model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and inference.

You will develop model inference and fine-tuning services, onboard accelerators, benchmark technologies, and collaborate with researchers to improve reliability, performance, scalability, and developer productivity across Apple’s AI