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Apple

AIML - Distinguished Engineer, ML Platform & Infrastructure

Cupertino, CA

Summary

Posted: Jan 27, 2023

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number:200445504

At Apple, our group is responsible for accelerating the creation of amazing on-device ML experience, and we are looking for a senior software architect. We want to future-proof software architecture for Apple's on-device ML stack to embrace the heterogeneity of hardware and software and protect individual users' privacy simultaneously. If you love crafting elegant solutions to technically challenging problems and building an important big-picture vision, we should talk. Our team collaborates with functional experts across Apple to design technologies that work in unison, influence the development of Apple's state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip architecture, as well as build software development tools that find adoption by Apple's AIML community (1P and 3P). We help ML developers (100s of 1P ML models, 1000s of 3P models) innovate and ship enriching experiences on Apple devices with high performance and privacy guarantees.

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Key Qualifications

  • Excellent problem-solving (e.g. via building forward-looking prototype systems), critical thinking, strong communication, and collaboration skills
  • Solid understanding of state-of-the-art DNN acceleration architectures and their key performance (compute/memory) tradeoffs
  • Understand, investigate, and formulate technical roadmaps for critical areas of interest for the company
  • Proven programming skills using standard ML tools such as Python, PyTorch, Tensorflow, CUDA, Metal, and C/C++
  • Strong applied experience with compiler technology to work with CPU, GPU, and ML accelerators
  • Minimum of 10+ years of tech lead software engineering/ML experience

Description

In this role, you will establish core execution teams, mentor and guide technical leads in executing high-priority goals and develop metrics and success indicators. This position requires strong leadership skills, analytic skills, and a passion for applying deep learning technologies that will enable ML-based features to preserve user privacy and performance/power guarantee to surprise and delight the users on the Apple platform. Your role will be accountable for looking #N years ahead to influence Apple silicon for high-performance and quality for ML-powered features; beyond execution excellence toward next year's software and hardware launches. You will get to architect systems and components that minimize trade-offs to get the most benefit out of Apple's hardware supremacy and become enablers for diverse user journeys (e.g. tailored for specific hardware (Mac-based creative workflows), cross-platform(Windows, Linux, M1 Macs) or ubiquitous on Apple device ecosystem (iOS, macOS, iPadOS, WatchOS). The work you lead will be foundational for on-device usage understanding, private federated learning, and modernizing Apple's on-device ML stack to empower ML model construction, conversion, optimization, and adaptation-based feature workflows.

Education & Experience

MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field

Additional Requirements

Pay & Benefits

  • At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $266,000 and $425,000, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

    Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

    Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Client-provided location(s): Cupertino, CA, USA
Job ID: apple-200445504-1
Employment Type: Other

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