Senior ML Build & Release Engineer – Private Cloud

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Service Engineering in Seattle, WA seeks a Senior Software Release Engineer to lead test strategy and automation for Private Cloud Compute initiatives. You will shape how world-class distributed systems are tested, validated, and scaled across Apple’s next‑generation datacenters.

This role combines hardware‑software integration, driving end‑to‑end release pipelines, incident response, and cross‑functional collaboration with SOC, platform, and software teams to keep Apple’s compute

Qualifications

• 10+ years in release engineering, build infrastructure and production releases.
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience. MS or PhD a plus.
• Expertise with large-scale build systems and C++/Swift/Python toolchains.
• CI/CD at scale with sharp judgment on cost, cache, and flake reduction.
• Track record shipping on tight, non-negotiable deadlines tied to OS or hardware launches.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for daily build qualification and recommendations to staging and production
• Own the build pipeline for LLM on Private Cloud Compute
• Manage model weights across OS release trains and faster server-side model updates
• Automate staged rollouts across OS releases and Private Cloud Compute releases
• Partner with Foundation Models, AIML, evals, privacy, security, and OS release teams on major launches
• Lead incident response and postmortems for inference release issues

Skills

Release engineering

Build infrastructure

C++/Swift/Python

CI/CD

OS/hardware launches

Education

BS in Computer Science

MS/PhD a plus

Job description

Apple Service Engineering in Seattle, WA seeks a Senior Software Release Engineer to lead test strategy and automation for Private Cloud Compute initiatives. You will shape how world-class distributed systems are tested, validated, and scaled across Apple’s next‑generation datacenters.

This role combines hardware‑software integration, driving end‑to‑end release pipelines, incident response, and cross‑functional collaboration with SOC, platform, and software teams to keep Apple’s compute