Senior Software Engineer, System Experience - Personalization

Apple Apple · Big Tech · Cupertino, CA · Software and Services

Senior Software Engineer to work on on-device intelligence for iOS personalization, focusing on features like notification management, widget relevance, and app prediction. The role involves designing, architecting, and implementing software and frameworks for core system experiences across Apple platforms, with a strong emphasis on user experience and privacy.

What you'd actually do

  1. As we build the future of iOS, you will be responsible for driving the development of the software and frameworks that power them.
  2. You will be responsible for developing our frameworks across a wide variety of products and features, proposing and driving innovative solutions, improving our codebase and overall architecture in service of quality and future feature development.
  3. You will be a core participant in developing new features and architectures that results in high quality features while adhering to device power and performance constraints.
  4. We are passionate about user experiences and privacy.
  5. Our mission is to craft user experiences which demonstrate the power of machine learning and on-device intelligence to preserve our customers privacy.

Skills

Required

  • Comprehensive understanding of performance characteristics, balancing tradeoffs between memory, CPU, and I/O
  • BS, M.S. or PhD in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
  • Ability to work with large complex codebases
  • Deep knowledge of Objective-C, C, or Swift
  • Strong foundation in Computer Science fundamentals and Software engineering standard methodologies
  • Experience in resource constrained computing (embedded systems or mobile development)

Nice to have

  • Experience with UI development, design and prototyping
  • Experience with machine learning, generative models or large language models

What the JD emphasized

  • on-device intelligence
  • privacy preserving on-device intelligence
  • privacy
  • preserve our customers privacy

Other signals

  • on-device intelligence
  • personalizing core system experiences
  • predicting what apps you will launch next
  • state-of-the-art intelligence impacting over a billion users