Apple
System Performance Engineer - AI/ML, Platform Architecture
$185K–$325K
Santa Clara, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ 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, analyzes system performance, and presents findings that guide hardware and software optimization.
What you'll do
- Define representative AI workloads, metrics, and experiments; run benchmarks across devices.
- Analyze performance data and system behavior to identify optimization opportunities across hardware, software, power, thermal, and acoustic characteristics.
- Present technical findings and actionable insights to leadership and cross-functional partners.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related degree.
- Experience with performance measurement, analysis, debugging, and optimization using software profiling tools.
- Experience curating, running, and interpreting AI/ML workloads or benchmarks, including relevant frameworks and hardware-specific runtimes.
Nice to have
- 10+ years of industry experience in performance analysis.
- Proficiency in Python for scripting and automation.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 USD base salary
Tools
VTune, Nsight, uProf, WPA, HWInfo, PyTorch, TensorFlow, TensorRT/CUDA
AI focus
Curate, benchmark, and analyze AI/ML workloads and experiences across devices; track developments in models, frameworks, accelerators, and device features.
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