Apple
Sr. AI Inference Platform Engineer
$175K–$308K
Seattle, Washington · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 7 or more years in performance and infrastructure engineering in distributed systems; 7 years coding in Python, Go, C++, or other programming languages.
- Education
- BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field.
About the job
Builds tooling, benchmarking, data analysis, and forecasting systems to measure and optimize AI inference performance and inform infrastructure and capacity planning.
What you'll do
- Automate evaluation of AI inference performance across hardware generations and configurations; surface trends, regressions, and insights.
- Build projection and forecasting models and analyze performance and utilization data to guide capacity planning and optimization.
- Partner with infrastructure, hardware, and planning teams to improve performance analysis workflows and measurement systems.
What they ask for
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Solid understanding of AI/ML inference architecture and serving-system performance; strong knowledge of GPU/accelerator architecture for AI workloads.
- 7 or more years of performance and infrastructure engineering experience in distributed systems.
- 7 years of coding experience in Python, Go, C++, or other programming languages; experience with automation, tooling, and data pipelines; practical statistical knowledge for performance analysis and forecasting.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI/ML inference benchmarking, capacity planning, GPU profiling, data visualization, ML serving frameworks, CI/CD, workflow orchestration, cluster schedulers, or metrics and logging tools.
- Examples named include Nsight, Triton, TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk.
Pay
$175,000 and $308,500 (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, C++, Nsight, Triton, TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, Kubernetes
AI focus
Develops and analyzes systems for AI/ML inference performance, benchmarking, infrastructure scaling, and capacity forecasting.
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