System Software Engineer

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Seattle, WA
Salary: $142,300–$263,300 / yr
Posted: 76 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 · System Software Engineer

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The System Software Engineer joins the cloudOS team to build and integrate software that orchestrates workloads across highly performant and energy-efficient systems for next-generation data centers. You will develop, maintain, and optimize OS-level components, including runtime libraries, frameworks, and daemons. Key responsibilities involve enhancing operating system performance, scalability, and reliability while troubleshooting low-level OS issues, networking bottlenecks, and hardware-software integration challenges. You will utilize hardware acceleration for machine learning and high-performance computing workloads. Required skills include proficiency in C/C++, Obj-C, or Swift, along with strong knowledge of OS architecture, process management, IPC, signals, and daemon lifecycles. You will also work with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes to manage large-scale distributed systems and AI workload orchestration on novel compute platforms.

What does a System Software Engineer earn?

Median $235750 from 73 postings across 5 companies.

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Skills

C++ Swift Objective-C Linux OS Architecture Distributed Systems Docker Kubernetes systemd launchd IPC Virtualization Containerization High Performance Computing Machine Learning APIs System Programming

What you'll do

Develop, maintain, and optimize OS-level components for data center infrastructure.
Design, implement, and maintain system daemons to manage hardware components and host processes.
Troubleshoot and resolve low-level OS issues, networking bottlenecks, and hardware-software integration challenges.
Implement robust fault detection and recovery mechanisms for hardware and daemon failures.
Contribute to the development of automation, monitoring, and diagnostic tools to improve system reliability.
Build and integrate software to orchestrate workloads across high-performance and energy-efficient systems.
Adapt and scale software to utilize hardware acceleration for machine learning and high-performance computing.

What we're looking for

4+ years of software engineering experience.
Proficiency in C/C++, Obj-C, or Swift.
Strong knowledge of OS architecture and low-level system components.
Solid understanding of Linux or Apple OS system programming, including process management, IPC, signals, and daemon lifecycle.
Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Familiarity with init systems (systemd, launchd, upstart) and service orchestration (preferred).
Knowledge of distributed systems, cloud computing, and large-scale data center infrastructure (preferred).
Experience with AI accelerators (GPUs, TPUs, ASICs) or container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes (preferred).

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