Apple
Apple Intelligence Senior Cloud Performance Engineer
$175K–$263K
Seattle, Washington · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 12, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years as a Performance Engineer.
- Education
- M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.
About the job
Own and improve end-to-end performance for Private Cloud Compute running Apple Intelligence, spanning hardware, platform, and software.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with architecture, platform, SOC, and software teams to set product power and performance targets.
- Develop automation and infrastructure tools to evaluate Apple Intelligence product performance.
- Troubleshoot performance issues and take ownership of a product or application functional area.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of experience as a Performance Engineer.
- Strong data- and AI-related experience, including both traditional ML systems and GenAI LLMs.
- In-depth cloud operations experience; strong understanding of hardware components and hardware/software interaction.
- M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.
Nice to have
- Experience modeling and debugging Transformer models, LLM inference, and training.
- Telemetry and observability experience with Splunk, Grafana, or Prometheus; SQL and a major data analytics platform.
Pay
$175,000 to $263,300 USD base salary
Tools
C/C++, Python, Swift, SQL, Shell, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus
AI focus
Evaluate and improve performance of Apple Intelligence in Private Cloud Compute; work across traditional ML systems and GenAI LLMs.
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