Senior Software Release Engineer, Private Cloud Computing

Apple Service Engineering is seeking an exceptional Senior Software Release Engineer to take on a high visibility high impact role at the center of our next-generation datacenter and Private Cloud Compute initiatives. This is a role for a senior engineer who wants to define how world-class distributed systems are tested validated and scaled at one of the most ambitious infrastructure efforts in the will be a technical leader and key contributor to the foundation of Apples future cloud architecture working directly with the systems that power Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute. You will drive critical testing and validation initiatives across highly performant energy efficient platforms built on Apple Silicon and will play a central role in ensuring the quality reliability and scalability of next-generation datacenter technology that reaches hundreds of millions of people.

As a Senior Software Release Engineer on the Private Cloud Compute team you will be responsible for driving the test strategy automation infrastructure and validation frameworks that underpin some of Apples most critical and technically complex distributed systems. You will operate at the intersection of hardware and software working across the full stack to ensure that next-generation datacenter technology is performant reliable and ready to will be expected to bring senior-level technical leadership to every initiative you own from defining test architecture to driving resolution of the most complex system-level issues. You will collaborate directly with hardware and platform teams to validate novel compute platforms before they reach production and will build the tooling and automation infrastructure that enables the broader engineering organization to move with speed and this highly collaborative and cross-functional role you will partner with architecture teams SOC architects platform engineers and software teams across Apple to adapt validate and scale software on novel compute platforms. If you are a senior engineer who thrives on solving hard problems owning critical initiatives end-to-end and building systems that have never been built before this is the role for you.

Responsible for daily build qualification and recommendations to staging and productionnOwn the build pipeline for LLM on Private Cloud ComputenManage model weights across OS release trains and faster server-side model updatesnAutomate staged rollouts across OS releases and Private Cloud Compute releasesnPartner with Foundation Models AIML evals privacy security and OS release teams on major launchesnLead incident response and postmortems for inference release issues

10 or more years in release engineering build infrastructure and production releasesnBS in Computer Science or equivalent experience. MS or PhD a with large-scale build systems and C/Swift/Python toolchainsnCI/CD at scale with sharp judgment on cost cache and flake reductionnTrack 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 with Apple development tools Swift or building test infrastructure for systems at the hardware-software boundary including firmware drivers or low-level platform of energy efficiency and performance profiling techniques for high performance computing contributing to or defining test strategy at an organizational level not just within a single team or product experience working in a private cloud hyperscale datacenter or edge compute environment.