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AI/ML System Performance Architect - Datacenter

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: Aug 19, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200615970-0505

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Every single day, people do amazing things at Apple! Do you want to impact billions of users by developing an extraordinary product with a prime focus on accuracy, understandability, and performance of the product? Dynamic, Inspiring people and Innovative technologies are the norm here.

The System Performance Architecture team is responsible for all aspects of performance spanning hardware (CPU, GPU, DRAM, storage), software (OS, drivers, applications), and other system characteristics (thermals, power, acoustics). This spans performance modeling, guiding architecture tradeoffs, performance verification, performance debug, and workload characterization.

Our team is collaborative, creative and passionate about what we do and the value we add in future product designs.

Come join us!

Description

We are seeking an outstanding Data Center performance architect to contribute to the design and optimization of computer architectures specifically for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence applications. This position is a multi-disciplinary and multi-functional engineering role encompassing all aspects of computer system design with a focus on performance simulation. The candidate will need the skills and experience to create complex system architectures, surprise and delight our customers, and advance our products' performance, size, power, thermal and cost goals.

Responsibilities

• We are looking for a unique individual capable of taking a technical role including but not limited to the following:

• Interacting with various multi-functional teams to understand, model, and guide developments and trade offs

• Defining and guiding new modeling approaches and features to improve influence in performance related decisions

• Distilling key system interactions and abstracting them into high level performance models

• Guiding modeling validation and accuracy to continually improve current methods and approaches

• Generating performance projections for future systems

• Assisting with complex performance debug activities

Minimum Qualifications

• At least 5 years of industry experience

• Knowledge and experience in computer architecture and systems

• Experience in performance modeling and simulation

• Experience in software development using C++ and Python

Preferred Qualifications

• Machine Learning experience is desired

• Expertise in software development is preferred

• Strong coding skills

• Prior experience with data center and large-scale cluster systems is desired

• Prior experience in analyzing software/OS behavior and performance/power management

• Strong communication skills

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