Swift Engineer – On-Device Cloud Inference Frameworks

Apple; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is looking for a Software Engineer to join the Private Cloud Compute team, focusing on building privacy-preserving cloud inference platforms for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. You will design and implement Swift frameworks that optimize high-level inference requests while maintaining user privacy and system integrity.

The ideal candidate has experience with system-level frameworks for iOS/macOS, strong Swift skills, and understanding of concurrency and memory management. Apple values diversity and is committed to fair hiring practices.

Qualifications

• Experience developing complex, system-level frameworks for iOS and macOS.
• Strong proficiency in Swift necessary.
• Deep understanding of concurrency and memory management.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve on-device client SDKs and XPC services.
• Implement high-throughput, low-latency request paths.
• Own concurrency and resource management across async/await and GCD.
• Build telemetry and privacy-audited logging systems.
• Collaborate with server-side teams and mentor junior engineers.
• Profile on real hardware to optimize performance metrics.

Skills

Swift Programming

Objective-C

C/C++

Concurrency

Asynchronous Network Programming

Job description

Apple is looking for a Software Engineer to join the Private Cloud Compute team, focusing on building privacy-preserving cloud inference platforms for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. You will design and implement Swift frameworks that optimize high-level inference requests while maintaining user privacy and system integrity.

The ideal candidate has experience with system-level frameworks for iOS/macOS, strong Swift skills, and understanding of concurrency and memory management. Apple values diversity and is committed to fair hiring practices.