On-Device AI Systems Engineer (Intelligence Orchestration)

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino seeks a seasoned engineer to own the development of daemons and frameworks powering on-device intelligence across Apple platforms.

You will contribute across the full software lifecycle, from design to testing, maintaining and evolving core systems while ensuring performance and reliability. Collaboration with Siri and intelligence teams will be central to delivering seamless experiences across iOS, macOS, watchOS, and beyond.

Qualifications

• Expert-level proficiency in C, Objective-C, or Swift.
• Knowledge of operating system architecture and systems programming fundamentals.
• Experience developing daemons, libraries, or command-line tools on a Unix or Linux platform.
• Familiarity with machine learning concepts.
• Analytical and debugging skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain daemons and frameworks that support on-device intelligence features across Apple platforms
• Manage models for on-device inference and coordinate routing to private cloud compute
• Schedule and optimize document processing workloads to power search experiences
• Develop and improve unit tests and performance tests; diagnose and resolve customer-reported issues
• Provide design guidance and technical expertise to partner engineering teams across the company

Skills

C/Obj-C/Swift

OS architecture

Unix/Linux daemons

ML concepts

Debugging

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cupertino seeks a seasoned engineer to own the development of daemons and frameworks powering on-device intelligence across Apple platforms.

You will contribute across the full software lifecycle, from design to testing, maintaining and evolving core systems while ensuring performance and reliability. Collaboration with Siri and intelligence teams will be central to delivering seamless experiences across iOS, macOS, watchOS, and beyond.