Senior Software Engineer, watchOS System Spaces

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Cupertino, CA
Salary
$150,400–$277,600 / yr
Posted
42 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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This role $214k
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About Apple Inc

Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

Apple Inc currently has 1984 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, watchOS System Spaces

As a Senior Software Engineer, watchOS System Spaces, you will join the team responsible for the underlying systems of the always-running watchOS experience, including notifications and alerts. You will design, implement, and ship new capabilities while improving the architecture of long-lived systems involving state management, concurrency, and inter-process interfaces. Your daily work involves owning software reliability across process and device boundaries, root-causing failures from logs on hardware, and optimizing for specific constraints like latency, memory footprint, and power cost. The role requires proficiency in Swift and Objective-C to solve problems within a small power and memory budget. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners to ensure platform coherence. This systems-focused role addresses the technical challenges of maintaining high-performance software on wearable hardware where reliability and efficiency are critical features for the end user experience.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214000 from 775 postings across 63 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and implement new capabilities within the watchOS system experience.
  • Shape the interfaces that other internal teams build upon.
  • Root-cause failures across process and device boundaries using logs and traces on hardware.
  • Improve architecture for state management, concurrency, and inter-process interfaces in long-lived systems.
  • Profile and optimize software for latency, memory footprint, and power constraints.
  • Ensure watchOS remains coherent with other Apple platforms through cross-functional collaboration.
  • Advocate for the specific needs of the Apple Watch platform in cross-functional forums.

What we're looking for

  • At least 6 years of software development experience.
  • Solid computer science fundamentals.
  • Experience building or maintaining systems software, including daemons, services, IPC, concurrency, or embedded environments.
  • Experience diagnosing failures that cross process or device boundaries.
  • Proficiency in Swift and Objective-C.
  • Ability to work collaboratively and explain complex ideas clearly.
  • Preferred experience with low-level software on constrained hardware or multi-device/distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with operating system internals, including process lifecycle and networking.

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