Apple

AIML - Sr. LLM Inference Quality Engineer

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Responsibilities

  • Lead qualification of LLM inference and output-correctness automation frameworks for large-scale AI data center deployment and platform validation.
  • Architect qualification systems for generative AI, including agentic workflows and tool-using models.
  • Validate model outputs across changes to models, weights, prompts, serving runtimes, quantization schemes, and accelerator hardware.
  • Build production-quality automation, evaluation, and AI-assisted QA tooling.
  • Apply statistical and machine-learning evaluation methods to model and data behavior.
  • Integrate automated evaluations into release pipelines and define quality standards for LLM inference.
  • Partner with ML, inference/performance, distributed systems, and platform engineering teams.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience with hardware and/or software development lifecycle processes.
  • At least 5 years of experience with one or more compiled languages such as C, C++, Objective-C, or Swift.
  • Proficiency in a scripting language such as Python, Go, or JavaScript.
  • Experience using AI or LLMs to improve testing through test-case generation, defect detection, or reduced manual QA effort.
  • Familiarity with LLM serving, inference optimization, GPU-accelerated software, and distributed or multi-accelerator serving.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud-native systems, and automated evaluation pipelines.
  • Experience with machine learning and LLM frameworks such as PyTorch or Hugging Face Transformers, or comparable inference and serving stacks.
  • Experience with observability, distributed tracing, and model-drift monitoring using tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, or LangSmith.
  • Bachelor's, master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: at least 5 years working with and building operating systems.
  • Preferred: at least 2 years of experience in LLM testing or development.

Tech Stack

CC++GoGrafanaHugging Face TransformersJavaScriptKubernetesObjective-CPrometheusPythonPyTorchSplunkSwift

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About Apple

10,000+ employees

Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and services for consumers and professionals worldwide, including iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods, plus platforms like iOS/macOS and services such as the App Store, iCloud, Music, and TV+. Its business combines device sales with services and subscriptions and in-house silicon design. Founded in 1976, Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, and trades on NASDAQ as AAPL.

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