Apple

Software Engineer - Face ID

Apple$150K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS degree with 10+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Proven track record in collaborative software design and shipping
  • Strong fundamentals in API/design, data structures, concurrency
  • Experience with embedded platforms focusing on performance and memory
  • Ability to integrate computer vision or machine learning components
  • Familiarity with profiling, instrumentation, and automated testing

Responsibilities

  • Design and build the software stack for Face ID
  • Integrate software across the OS stack with a focus on performance
  • Optimize software for power, reliability, and security
  • Collaborate with CVML researchers to transition prototypes to production
  • Partner with hardware teams for sensor integration
  • Ensure product accessibility and quality through teamwork

Benefits

  • Work on cutting-edge technology with a high-impact team
  • Opportunity to collaborate with top engineers and researchers
  • Engagement in meaningful projects with real-world applications
  • Potential for contributions to widely used consumer technology
  • Support for career growth in a high-tech environment
Full Job Description
The Face ID team is an engineering and applied research team responsible for developing real-time, on-device Computer Vision and Machine Perception technologies that power secure authentication across Apple products. We focus on a balance of research and engineering to deliver Apple quality, state-of-the-art experiences. As a member of the Face ID team you will build and ship the software that brings these technologies to life on Apple's next generation hardware and silicon. We are looking for a software engineer to help us take our platform, frameworks, and shipping experiences to the next level.

Description

We are looking for a proactive software engineer to help design, build, and ship the software stack behind Face ID. The ideal candidate has a strong passion for delivering high-quality products and solving challenging real-world technical problems. Responsibilities range across architecture and API design, implementation, integration across the OS stack, optimization, automated testing, and benchmarking - with a particular emphasis on performance, power, reliability, and security. You will work with CVML researchers to bring new capabilities from prototype to production, partner with hardware and silicon teams on sensor bring-up, and collaborate with framework, accessibility, and QA teams to make sure the experience works well for everyone who uses it. In this position you will work closely with similar minds in a unique development team building software that runs billions of times a day.

Minimum Qualifications

BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience

Track record of designing and shipping robust software in a collaborative environment.

Strong software engineering fundamentals: API and framework design, data structures, concurrency, memory management, and debugging complex systems

Experience writing production software for resource-constrained or embedded platforms, with an emphasis on performance, memory, latency, and power

Experience integrating computer vision or machine learning components into shipping products (you don't need to invent the models, but you should be comfortable working alongside those who do)

Experience with profiling, instrumentation, automated testing, and continuous integration

Preferred Qualifications

MS or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field

Expert C/C++ skills, with working knowledge of Python; Objective-C or Swift experience

Familiarity with camera, depth, or other sensor pipelines; experience with 3D or time-of-flight imaging

Comfort working close to hardware and collaborating with silicon, firmware, and hardware teams

Interest in security and privacy-preserving system design

Passion for shipping high-quality products, including accessible experiences that work for a wide range of users

Self-motivated, with excellent problem-solving and communication skills, and a collaborative approach to code review and design discussion

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.

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Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
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$294.1 billion
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