Senior Software Engineer, watchOS System Spaces

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Boulder, CO
Salary
$134,700–$249,500 / yr
Posted
88 days ago
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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

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, watchOS System Spaces

The Senior Software Engineer, watchOS System Spaces joins the watchOS System Spaces group to develop the core systems powering the always-running watchOS experience, including notifications and alerts. This role involves designing and shipping new capabilities, owning software reliability across process and device boundaries, and improving architectures for state management, concurrency, and inter-process interfaces. You will profile and optimize for strict latency, memory footprint, and power cost constraints inherent to wearable hardware. The position requires proficiency in Swift and Objective-C, along with experience in systems software such as daemons, services, and inter-process communication. You will solve complex problems regarding long-lived systems and operating system internals, ensuring the platform remains coherent while navigating the technical limitations of a constrained embedded environment.

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What you'll do

  • Design, implement, and ship new capabilities for the watchOS system experience.
  • Shape the interfaces that other engineering teams build upon.
  • Own software reliability across process and device boundaries by root-causing failures from logs and traces.
  • Improve architecture for state management, concurrency, and inter-process interfaces in long-lived systems.
  • Profile and optimize software for latency, memory footprint, and power cost constraints.
  • Advocate for Apple Watch platform needs in cross-functional forums.

What we're looking for

  • 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 with Swift and Objective-C.
  • Ability to work collaboratively and explain complex ideas clearly.
  • Experience with low-level software on constrained hardware (preferred).
  • Experience with multi-device or distributed systems (preferred).

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