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Senior Software Engineer, ML Build & Release Quality - Private Cloud Computing

Apple· Software and Services
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Seattle, Washington$175k - $308.5kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Release Engineer focused on build, release quality, and validation for Private Cloud Compute at Apple. Leads test strategy, automation infrastructure, and end-to-end release processes for large-scale distributed systems powering Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute on novel compute platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for daily build qualification and recommendations to staging and production
  • Own the build pipeline for LLM on Private Cloud Compute
  • Manage model weights across OS release trains and faster server-side model updates
  • Automate staged rollouts across OS releases and Private Cloud Compute releases
  • Partner with Foundation Models, AIML, evals, privacy, security, and OS release teams on major launches
  • Lead incident response and postmortems for inference release issues

Qualifications

  • 10 or more years in release engineering, build infrastructure and production releases
  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience. MS or PhD a plus.
  • Expertise with large-scale build systems and C++/Swift/Python toolchains
  • CI/CD at scale with sharp judgment on cost, cache, and flake reduction
  • Track record shipping on tight, non-negotiable deadlines tied to OS or hardware launches
  • Experience validating ML or LLM workloads running on hardware accelerators such as GPUs, NPUs, or Apple Silicon in a cloud or datacenter environment.
  • Familiarity with Apple development tools, Swift, or Objective-C.
  • Experience building test infrastructure for systems at the hardware-software boundary, including firmware, drivers, or low-level platform software.
  • Knowledge of energy efficiency and performance profiling techniques for high performance computing workloads.
  • Experience contributing to or defining test strategy at an organizational level, not just within a single team or product area.
  • Prior experience working in a private cloud, hyperscale datacenter, or edge compute environment.

Skills

Required:build systemsC++SwiftPythonCI/CD

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • range of discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments (potential)
  • relocation assistance
  • Apple stock programs including discretionary RSU awards and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • eligibility for relocation benefits and educational reimbursement
Last updated Aug 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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