Apple
Apple Neural Engine Performance and Power Engineer
$185K–$325K
Sunnyvale, California · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Experience
- A minimum of 10 years of experience with system performance analysis.
- Education
- BS; an MS or PhD in computer science, machine learning, or a related field is preferred.
About the job
Optimize performance and energy efficiency for AI workloads on Apple Neural Engine software across Apple product platforms.
What you'll do
- Analyze end-to-end AI application performance and resolve software and hardware bottlenecks.
- Collaborate with AI/ML, software, and hardware teams to design and implement performance solutions.
- Develop and use profiling tools, and work with QA on performance and power tests for AI workloads.
What they ask for
- BS degree.
- At least 10 years of experience with system performance analysis.
- Excellent programming skills in C or Python.
Nice to have
- MS or PhD in computer science, machine learning, or a related field.
- Experience with performance or power architecture, modeling, or validation; AI networks; profiling; distributed computing or hardware acceleration; data science and statistics; Tableau; or C++/Swift/Objective-C.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 USD base salary
Tools
C, Python, CNN, transformer, diffusion model architectures, Tableau, C++, Swift
AI focus
Optimize performance and energy efficiency for AI workloads, including familiarity with CNN, transformer, and diffusion model architectures.
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