Apple

Software Engineering Manager - Telephony, Wireless Technologies & Ecosystems

Apple$150K — $180K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in systems, embedded, or platform development
  • 3+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience
  • Strong programming experience in C and/or C++
  • Experience delivering production-quality systems in complex environments
  • Strong fundamentals in architecture, debugging, and performance analysis
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills
  • Deep understanding of telephony systems such as IMS and VoLTE.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team developing technologies for cellular communication and calling features
  • Set technical direction and guide software architecture and design
  • Drive execution from early development through product shipment
  • Own telephony audio quality and lab-based validation
  • Build automation systems to improve regression detection and software quality
  • Collaborate across software, baseband, QA, and product teams
  • Debug complex system issues and enhance engineering efficiency.

Benefits

  • Work on cutting-edge telephony technologies impacting millions of users
  • Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams
  • Opportunity for innovation in automation and quality improvement
  • Hands-on involvement with audio quality and validation processes
  • Leadership role in a high-visibility project area.
Full Job Description
The Telephony team is looking for a hands-on Software Engineering Manager to lead engineers building core calling and messaging technologies across Apple products. This team is responsible for cellular and Wi-Fi call flows, carrier features, IMS-based services, emergency calling, diagnostics, analytics, and modem integration. You will work closely with software, baseband, QA, carrier engineering, and product teams to deliver reliable, private, and high-quality communication experiences to millions of customers.

As a Software Engineering Manager in the Telephony group, you'll lead a team developing critical technologies for cellular communication and calling features. The work includes IMS subsystems (VoLTE, VoNR, Wi-Fi), RCS, emergency calling, telephony audio quality, diagnostics, and analytics. You'll set technical direction, guide architecture and design, and drive execution from early development through product shipment. This role also includes ownership of telephony audio quality and lab-based validation in San Diego, as well as opportunities to build automation systems that improve regression detection and software quality. You should be comfortable working across complex system boundaries, debugging challenging issues, and driving improvements in quality, reliability, and engineering efficiency.

8+ years of experience in systems, embedded, or platform development 3+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience You have strong programming experience in C and/or C++ You have experience delivering production-quality systems across complex environments Strong fundamentals in architecture, debugging, and performance analysis You have experience working cross-functionally with other teams You have excellent communication and leadership skills You're laser-focused on the smallest details that are meaningful to our customers You're obsessively passionate and inquisitive, and seek to tackle everyday problems in innovative ways

Experience with telephony systems, including IMS, VoLTE, VoNR, RCS, or emergency calling Experience with telephony audio systems, codecs, and tuning Experience designing automation or CI systems for regression detection and quality improvement Deep expertise in C/C++ including concurrency and performance optimization Familiarity with cellular protocols like SIP, SDP, MSRP, and MLS Experience using modern developer tools, including AI-assisted workflows

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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+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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