Senior Systems Software Engineer (watchOS)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Systems Software Engineer (watchOS)

Description

As a key engineer on the watchOS Systems team, you will build and optimize foundational software that drives Apple Watch performance and power efficiency. You will collaborate with Performance, Power, OS, and Hardware experts, architect core OS features, and investigate/debug major power and performance issues across the stack. You will also research, prototype new technologies, and build tools to help engineers model and analyze performance and memory.

Responsibilities

• Work across the system software stack (firmware or kernel layers up to application layers) to create new experiences using hardware in new ways
• Define software needs for future hardware by modeling and projecting memory demand over the lifetime of a new SoC
• Run investigative and research-like projects to explore and prototype solutions for open-ended problems
• Diagnose and resolve functional and performance issues across language/runtime/kernel layers and in application and system daemons
• Implement new software components, frameworks, and applications
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features

Requirements

• 8+ years industry experience
• Deep technical understanding and hands-on experience with software development and lifecycle management
• Experience with low-level OS systems (kernel, Darwin, or drivers)
• Deep experience with power and performance measurement and investigation techniques
• Solid computer science fundamentals
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Benefits

Opportunity to work on complex, open-ended system software challenges spanning hardware and software.