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Senior Cloud Infrastructure and AI Efficiency Engineer

Seattle, United States of AmericaFull-time2026-09-23 → 2026-11-10

Core

Drive data and insights for planning Apple's cloud infrastructure strategy, optimizing costs, and delivering proactive AI-based recommendations to engineering teams.

Role type

Senior IC cloud infrastructure and AI efficiency engineer

Builds

Cloud resource planning strategies, cost optimization models, and AI-augmented operational insights for Apple's private and public cloud services.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure, FinOps, AI/ML Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Cloud architecture design, Kubernetes orchestration, SQL with AI, FinOps and cost optimization, distributed systems, observability, AI/ML system integration, capacity planning, cross-functional leadership

Preferred skills

Foundation models and agentic AI expertise, cloud-native architecture design, unit economics modeling, AI-augmented forecasting

Technologies

Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure, CloudWatch, Datadog, Cloudability, CloudHealth, LLMs

Responsibilities

Build insights into cloud services architecture, cost, and utilization; partner with engineering and business leaders to translate infrastructure data into strategic recommendations; use AI to deliver proactive insights for architectural decisions; optimize resource efficiency and cost in hybrid/multi-cloud environments; design scalable cloud-native architectures; build and communicate AI-augmented models for capacity planning and financial strategy.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC