Senior Computer Vision & ML Engineer – On-Device Face ID

Apple Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. Sunnyvale seeks a software engineer for the Face ID team to design, build, and ship the software stack behind Face ID on Apple devices.

You will collaborate across OS, CV/ML researchers, hardware, and silicon teams to bring real-time computer vision capabilities to production on next‑generation hardware. Applicants should have a strong track record shipping robust software on resource-constrained or embedded platforms, with emphasis on performance, memory, latency, and power.

Qualifications

• BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience.
• Track record of designing and shipping robust software in a collaborative environment.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: API and framework design, data structures, concurrency, memory management, and debugging complex systems.
• Experience writing production software for resource‑constrained or embedded platforms, with an emphasis on performance, memory, latency, and power.
• Experience integrating computer vision or machine learning components into shipping products (you don't need to invent the models, but you should be comfortable working alongside those who do)
• Experience with profiling, instrumentation, automated testing, and continuous integration

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship the software stack behind Face ID across Apple platforms.
• Work on architecture and API design, integration across the OS stack, optimization, automated testing, and benchmarking.
• Collaborate with CVML researchers to move capabilities from prototype to production.
• Coordinate with hardware and silicon teams on sensor bring‑up and collaboration with framework, accessibility, and QA teams.
• Partner with teams across code review and design discussions to ensure high quality, scalable software.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Objective-C

Swift

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Apple Inc. Sunnyvale seeks a software engineer for the Face ID team to design, build, and ship the software stack behind Face ID on Apple devices.

You will collaborate across OS, CV/ML researchers, hardware, and silicon teams to bring real-time computer vision capabilities to production on next‑generation hardware. Applicants should have a strong track record shipping robust software on resource-constrained or embedded platforms, with emphasis on performance, memory, latency, and power.