Apple
Senior Software Engineer, ML Build & Release Quality - Private Cloud Computing
$175K–$308K
Seattle, Washington · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 6, 2026
- Experience
- 10 or more years in release engineering, build infrastructure and production releases.
- Education
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience; MS or PhD a plus.
About the job
Leads build and release qualification for LLMs on Private Cloud Compute, ensuring model updates and distributed systems are validated, reliable, and ready for production.
What you'll do
- Own daily build qualification, build pipeline recommendations, and the LLM build pipeline for Private Cloud Compute.
- Manage model weights across OS release trains, automate staged rollouts, and coordinate major launches with partner teams.
- Lead incident response and postmortems for inference release issues.
What they ask for
- 10 or more years in release engineering, build infrastructure and production releases.
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Expertise with large-scale build systems and C++/Swift/Python toolchains.
- CI/CD at scale, with judgment on cost, cache, and flake reduction; track record shipping against tight deadlines tied to OS or hardware launches.
Nice to have
- Experience validating ML or LLM workloads on hardware accelerators in a cloud or datacenter environment.
- Experience with hardware-software boundary test infrastructure, private cloud or datacenter environments, or organizational test strategy.
Pay
$175,000 and $308,500 (base salary)
Tools
C++, Swift, Python, LLM, CI/CD, GPUs, NPUs, Apple Silicon
AI focus
Owns the build pipeline, model-weight management, staged rollouts, and release quality for LLMs on Private Cloud Compute; partners on Apple Intelligence launches and inference release issues.
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