Senior Systems Engineer, Watch Software

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Systems Engineer, Watch Software

Description

Join the watchOS Systems team to build and optimize foundational system software for Apple Watch, improving performance and power efficiency. You’ll tackle system-level architecture, investigate and debug issues across the language, runtime, kernel, and system/service layers, and build tools to model and analyze performance and memory. You’ll also prototype new technologies to help define future hardware and software features.

Responsibilities

• Work across the system software stack (firmware/kernel to application layers) to create new experiences using hardware capabilities.
• Model and project memory demand over the full lifetime of a new SoC to define future software needs.
• Conduct investigative research and prototyping for open-ended problems.
• Diagnose and resolve functional and performance issues across language, runtime, kernel, 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 for collaborating with a technical team.

Benefits

Not specified in the provided posting.