Apple
AI/ML Performance Analysis and Validation Engineer
$150K–$278K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of industry or research experience.
- Education
- Technical BS/MS/PhD or equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field.
About the job
Build and validate performance models for AI/ML applications on Apple Silicon to assess use cases and guide future product and hardware design.
What you'll do
- Build application and platform models and tools to test future products and project performance.
- Analyze and validate use cases against performance goals, and interpret performance data.
- Collaborate across product, hardware, software, firmware, frameworks, and application teams to define future product requirements and present analysis.
What they ask for
- Technical BS/MS/PhD or equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 3+ years of industry or research experience building performance models and validating AI/ML applications running on dedicated accelerators.
- Deep understanding of computer architecture, including processing units, interconnects, and memory systems; strong understanding of performance trade-offs in distributed computing systems.
- Excellent proficiency in Python, strong software engineering skills, and understanding of machine learning fundamentals.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience implementing and analyzing AI/ML applications using CNN, transformer, and diffusion architectures.
- Experience modeling data center architectures or building simulation technologies.
Pay
USD 150,400–USD 277,600 base salary
Tools
Python, PyTorch, JAX, CoreML, CNN, transformer, diffusion models, System-on-Chip (SoC)
AI focus
Model, validate, and analyze the performance of AI/ML applications on dedicated accelerators and Apple Silicon platforms, informing future hardware and product design.
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