Cloud Networking Engineer – GPU

Summary

Posted: Nov 6, 2024

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number:200577801

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job, and there’s no telling what we can accomplish together. We’re looking for a hardworking and passionate person to join this amazing team, and if you feel this is you, we’d love to hear from you! The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) organization is responsible for building powerful platforms that enable engineers to deliver incredible experiences to customers. Join this team, and you’ll help us create and deploy systems that support Appleʼs world-renowned hardware and software architecture. Our compute team is responsible for designing and building the foundational pieces of our in-house cloud technologies. In this role, you will collaborate with teams across Apple to deliver forward-looking high-performance virtual networking technologies for various cloud platforms supporting AIML workload. The successful candidate is highly motivated individual with strong technical, communication, and project management skills to create intuitive user experiences, who is passionate about quality, and is meticulous about the details that surprise and delight our customers.

Description

In this role you will be responsible for developing, debugging and maintaining virtual networking software solutions for GPUs for various cloud platforms. You will – Drive ideas from inception to implementation establishing a reputation sought out throughout the organization for advice and consultation through setting standards, process and technical direction – Design, implement, code, review, and debug software components and drivers – Generate and review design documentation – Participate in qualifications and rollouts of software to production clusters – Benchmark, analyze and improve scale, performance and resiliency issues – Hold yourself and others to a high quality standard encouraged of Apple products

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent related experience.
• Experience qualifying and configuring multiple versions of GPU hardware, NVIDIA drivers, and CUDA, plus their interaction with well known frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, Horovod, etc).
• Experience with advanced high-speed/low-latency Kubernetes networking stack. Ex : RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet)
• Experience in software development and deployment of networking technologies (SDN, OpenVSwitch)
• Experience in using and building cloud technologies such as CloudStack, OpenStack, AWS, GCP etc.
• A critical accuracy for correct code
• Proficiency in testing your software
• Ability to parse user requirements and develop production-quality solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience running large NVIDIA GPU fleets at scale. NVIDIA GPU nodes are less stable than CPU-only nodes. Requires knowledge on linux kernel tuning for GPUs, common HW/SW issues, and implementing preemptive health-checks.
• Experience qualifying and configuring environments where containers run a different GPU driver version from the one running on the host (Over docker/K8S or just LXC containers).
• Ability to effectively communicate within a team, with project collaborators, and project partners
• Experience with automation frameworks and CI/CD systems.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical thinking skills
• Enthusiastic about quality, design, and user experience

Pay & Benefits

• At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $166,600 and $296,300, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
  
  Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
  
  Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.