Apple
System Performance Engineer - AI/ML, Platform Architecture
$150K–$225K
Santa Clara, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of industry experience in performance analysis (preferred).
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related degree.
About the job
Benchmarks AI experiences across Apple devices and analyzes system performance to identify hardware and software optimizations and inform product decisions.
What you'll do
- Define representative AI workloads, metrics, and experiments; run workloads across hardware and software.
- Analyze performance data and system behavior to explain results and uncover optimization opportunities.
- Present clear, actionable findings to executives and cross-functional partners.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related degree.
- Experience measuring, analyzing, debugging, and optimizing performance using software profiling tools.
- Experience curating, running, and interpreting AI/ML workloads or benchmarks, including relevant frameworks and hardware-specific runtimes.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of industry experience in performance analysis.
- Python proficiency for scripting and automation.
Pay
USD $150,400 to $225,300 base salary
Tools
VTune, Nsight, uProf, WPA, HWInfo, PyTorch, TensorFlow, TensorRT/CUDA
AI focus
Curate and benchmark AI/ML workloads representing user experiences, analyze their performance across devices, and track developments in AI models, frameworks, accelerators, and device features.
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