# Staff / Principal ML Infrastructure Engineer

The Apple AI Platform team builds the foundational data storage, table format, and high-throughput data-loading systems powering Apple Foundation Models and large-scale ML training. We are designing and building an AI-native table format from the ground up: combining transactional snapshot isolation, concurrent updates, and multimodal schema evolution with built-in global indexing and sub-millisecond random access across multi-petabyte datasets on thousands of GPUs and TPUs. Description As a Staff/Principal ML Infrastructure Engineer on the team, you will architect the on-disk format, indexing structures, transactional metadata layer, and Rust data plane and training data loader that Apple's largest training workloads run on. Minimum Qualifications 10+ years of experience building storage engines, table or file formats, database internals, or high-performance distributed data and ML systems. Proven track record of designing and implementing table or file format internals (such as Apache Iceberg, Lance, Delta Lake, Parquet, Arrow, Vortex, Riegeli/ArrayRecord, RocksDB/LSM trees, or custom indexing and compaction engines), not just consuming them via high-level APIs. Production system

- **Id**: 4303787
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-staff-principal-ml-infrastructure-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cupertino, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-14T04:03:16Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T12:03:10Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3067
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Operating Systems, Laptops, Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers, Tablets

## Company

- **Id**: 12
- **Name**: Apple
- **Domain**: apple.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/apple>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Apple Jobs

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 94
- **Open postings**: 607
- **Ghost share**: 0.002
- **Stale share**: 0.005
- **Repost share**: 0.082
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 149
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Technologies

- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **Apache Iceberg** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Delta Lake** — Optional: no
- **JAX** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **PyO3** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **RocksDB** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **TPU** — Optional: no
- **DuckDB** — Optional: yes
- **Megatron-LM** — Optional: yes
- **Polars** — Optional: yes
- **Ray** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T05:22:34Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,350 · green card filings: 39; Filings 12m: 6350

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 149
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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