Apple

Software Engineer, OS and System Services

Apple$130K — $155K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience
  • Proficiency in C/C++
  • Strong knowledge of operating system and firmware development fundamentals
  • Passion for software architecture, APIs, and high performance extensible software
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

  • Build and integrate software for workload orchestration in data centers
  • Develop and maintain system software such as kernel drivers and runtime libraries
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with architecture, platform design, and software teams
  • Ensure high quality and agility through testing practices
  • Provide on-call support for deployed software

Benefits

  • Highly collaborative work environment
  • Opportunities to work on cutting-edge technologies
  • Involvement in the foundation of future cloud architecture
  • Focus on high performance and energy-efficient systems
  • Encouragement of innovative and creative thinking
Full Job Description
The Apple Cloud Engineering team is looking for an exceptional software engineer to build and integrate software to orchestrate workloads across highly performant and energy efficient systems that will power the next generation of data centers.

In this highly collaborative role, you will be at the center of multiple efforts to utilize hardware acceleration for machine learning and high performance computing workloads. You will be part of a team that builds and maintains system software such as kernel drivers, runtime libraries, frameworks, and daemons that will power the next generations of data centers. You will partner with teams across Apple to adapt, tailor, and scale software on a novel compute platform and will help to build the foundation of our future cloud architecture.

We are looking for someone with proven mastery building and managing scalable, resilient systems. You should have a strong mix of education and practical experience with a real passion for diving head first into challenging problems.

Description

We are seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join our System Software Team focused on optimizing and maintaining the core infrastructure of our data center environments. You will work cross-functionally with architecture, platform design, SOC architects, and software teams to develop and integrate best in class hardware, software, and services. You will be responsible for building and maintaining system infrastructure that powers the next generation of data centers. You will ensure high quality and agility with unit tests, integration tests and performance tests. You will occasionally go on-call to support the high quality software you deploy.

You are the right match if:

You possess strong skills in software design and programming.

You are passionate about developing new features, maintaining existing code, fixing bugs.

You have strong problem-solving skills.

You are skilled at the art of communicating and enjoy it

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years of software engineering experience

Proficiency in C/C++

Strong knowledge of operating system and firmware development fundamentals

Passion for software architecture, APIs, and high performance extensible software

Excellent communication skills

Creative, collaborative, and product-focused

Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Good grasp of system integration and passion for new hardware bringup

Experience with fleet software management (configuration management, software deployment, OTA) and debugging software at scale

Experience with AI accelerators (GPUs, TPUs, ASICs)

Good understanding of networking protocols, crypto key exchange algorithms, and/or distributed systems is a plus

Experience with Swift, Objective-C and Apple development tools

Demonstrated innovative and creative thinking capabilities

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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Learn more about Apple
Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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