Data Engineer - Capacity Planning
Job Description
Build the data foundation for infrastructure capacity planning across Apple’s data and AI systems.
Responsibilities
- Combine infrastructure telemetry, workload demand, capacity commitments, and financial information into trusted datasets and data products.
- Develop pipelines and analytical foundations to understand current utilization, forecast future needs, detect capacity gaps, and improve infrastructure efficiency.
- Collaborate with engineering and business partners to convert complex infrastructure data into actionable insights.
- Partner closely with engineering, CIBO, Finance, and Procurement to support better infrastructure planning and investment decisions.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Infrastructure Analytics, or a related field.
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with large datasets.
- Experience with Python or another language used for data processing and automation.
- Experience building data pipelines, data models, and analytical datasets.
- Understanding of ETL/ELT patterns, data quality, and pipeline reliability.
- Experience working with cloud billing and usage data from AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Demonstrated ability to build data models that reconcile to a financial source of truth.
- Understanding of AI and ML inference workloads and how model serving impacts compute cost.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical partners.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
Technologies
- SQL, Python
- ETL, ELT
- AWS, GCP, Azure
- AI, ML
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with infrastructure capacity planning, forecasting, or resource-management data.
- Experience working with GPU, TPU, CPU, storage, or cloud infrastructure.
- Understanding of AI/ML infrastructure and accelerator utilization.
- Experience with infrastructure cost, billing, or utilization datasets.
- Experience with data-platform tools such as Spark, Trino, Airflow, Kafka, or similar.
- Experience with Tableau or other visualization platforms.
- Familiarity with infrastructure economics, cloud commitments, or capacity optimization.
- Experience partnering with Engineering, Finance, or Procurement on infrastructure planning.
Location and Employment Details
- Location: Cupertino, CA (onsite)
- Salary: USD 129,300 - 225,300 per year
- Minimum experience: 3 years
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- Retirement benefits
- Range of discounted products and free services
- Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition
- Discretionary employee stock programs (discretionary restricted stock unit awards; ability to purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan)
- Discretionary bonuses or commission payments, plus relocation (if eligible)
Role Scope
- Initial focus: third-party cloud infrastructure including GPUs, TPUs, compute, and storage.
- Expansion over time: includes Apple-owned infrastructure.