Governance & Operations Lead, Infrastructure & Planning
Core
Build and own governance and operations for Apple's ML compute lifecycle, designing systems to track utilization, optimize costs, and support high-leverage ML teams.
Role type
Founding Operations Lead (Infrastructure & Planning)
Builds
Governance tooling, telemetry frameworks, utilization dashboards, and analytical models for ML compute.
Domain
Machine Learning Infrastructure & Cloud Operations
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Governance design, hierarchical technical support management (SRE), data engineering, analytical dashboarding, financial impact modeling, cross-functional leadership, system architecture from ground up, AI workflow adaptation, capacity planning, cost optimization.
Preferred skills
Python for data analysis, ML training infrastructure concepts, FinOps, automated alerting, anomaly detection.
Technologies
SQL, Tableau, Looker, Grafana, Python, pandas, GPUs, TPUs, custom silicon.
Responsibilities
Design and oversee a scalable hub-and-spoke support model; evolve governance tooling for compute resource requests and utilization data; bridge coverage gaps for new hardware and workloads; maintain analytical layers with dashboards and alerts; identify system anomalies and build financial impact models; deliver data-driven analytics to optimize foundation models and inference; design robust governance processes for Apple-scale ML demands; produce strategic analyses for executive decisions on ML compute investment.
Seniority
Founding, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship
