Senior watchOS Systems Engineer – Spaces & Runtime

Apple Inc.; Cupertino, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the watchOS System Spaces group in Cupertino, CA. You will work on the systems behind the always-running watchOS experience, including notifications and alerts, and collaborate with talented colleagues to meet ambitious goals.

Your work will be experienced by millions of Apple Watch users daily. This is a systems role focused on reliability, power, and memory within constrained hardware budgets.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software development experience.
• Experience building or maintaining systems software.
• Experience diagnosing failures across processes or devices.
• Proficiency with Swift and Objective-C.
• Strong collaboration and clear explanation of ideas.
• Solid CS fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and ship new capabilities in the watchOS system experience, and shape the interfaces other teams build on.
• Own the reliability of software that spans process and device boundaries, and root-cause failures from logs and traces on shipping hardware.
• Improve the architecture of long-lived systems that many teams depend on: state management, concurrency, and inter-process interfaces.
• Profile and optimize for the constraints unique to Apple Watch: latency, memory footprint, and power cost.
• Work with engineers, designers, and product partners across Apple to keep watchOS coherent with the rest of our platforms.
• Advocate for the unique needs and opportunities of the Apple Watch platform in cross-functional forums.

Skills

Swift

Objective-C

IPC

Concurrency

Embedded systems

Collaboration

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the watchOS System Spaces group in Cupertino, CA. You will work on the systems behind the always-running watchOS experience, including notifications and alerts, and collaborate with talented colleagues to meet ambitious goals.

Your work will be experienced by millions of Apple Watch users daily. This is a systems role focused on reliability, power, and memory within constrained hardware budgets.