Apple

Safety and Location Software Engineer

Apple$120K — $160K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong Software Engineering skills including design, programming (C, C++, Python, Git) and debugging.
  • Experience crafting APIs and broad experience in system design.
  • Well versed in software design paradigms and software development best practices, including development with Gen AI assisted and agentic workflows.
  • Excellent analytical, programming, and debugging skills.
  • Deep understanding of user privacy and the balance between privacy and safety.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop innovative safety features like Emergency SOS Live Video and Crash Detection.
  • Collaborate with product development teams to enhance wireless system functionalities.
  • Manage autonomous, fast-paced project schedules to ensure timely deliveries.
  • Evaluate and adapt to changing customer needs and regulatory requirements.
  • Improve existing processes and tools to streamline software development.
  • Communicate effectively across teams to drive multiple projects forward.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment fostering creativity and innovation.
  • Opportunity to work on safety-oriented technology that impacts lives positively.
  • Dynamic and evolving work requirements offering diverse challenges and learning.
  • Engagement with cutting-edge wireless technology across multiple teams.
Full Job Description
As a Software Engineer on the Safety and Location team, you will be working with the teams responsible for designing and productizing innovative safety features like Emergency SOS Live Video, Crash Detection, Fall Detection, and SOS via Satellite to name a few. By collaborating with other product development groups across Apple, you'll push the industry boundaries of what wireless systems can do and improve the product experience for our customers across the world. This position requires someone comfortable with all aspects of software development, who thrives in a multifaceted multifunctional organization, is not afraid to debate ideas openly, and is flexible enough to take on requirements that evolve dynamically due to changing customer needs and regulations.

Description

The environment is fast-paced, requiring the ability to work autonomously and to manage the aggressive delivery schedules. Suitable candidates should have a strong background in Computer Engineering, excellent problem solving skills, and passion for improving existing processes and tools. The right mix of technical, organizational, and communication skills is the key to success. Attention to detail and a proven ability to manage priorities are essential.

Minimum Qualifications

Strong Software Engineering skills including design, programming (C, C++, Python, Git) and debugging

Experience crafting APIs and broad experience in system design

Well versed in software design paradigms and software development best practices, including development with Gen AI assisted and agentic workflows

Excellent analytical, programming, and debugging skills

Preferred Qualifications

Thrives in a collaborative environment and can clearly communicate while driving multiple projects across teams

Genuine passion for safety-oriented technology and a drive to continuously innovate in ways that make a real difference in people's lives

Familiarity with basics of RF or location estimation technologies

Experience designing and debugging frameworks and multi-threaded / multi-process systems

Deeply passionate about user privacy and understand the balance between privacy and safety

A creative mindset with a track record of bringing innovative ideas to life in safety-critical or user-facing products

Experience with Objective-C or Swift programming

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

Apple Careers

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154,000 employees
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Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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