Senior Systems Engineer, Watch Software

The watchOS Systems team is looking for a creative senior software engineer to help define the future of Apple Watch. Your core responsibility will be to build and optimize the foundational software that drives the devices performance and power efficiency. You will also have the unique opportunity to conduct investigative research prototyping new technologies that will help define future hardware and software features. This role is perfect for a collaborative engineer who is passionate about the intersection of hardware and software and thrives on solving complex open-ended problems.

As a key engineer on this team you will tackle a wide range of complex challenges and collaborate closely with Performance Power OS and Hardware experts across Apple. Your responsibilities will be dynamic ranging from architecting core OS features to acting as a performance specialist for other teams. This includes defining and implementing critical system-level functionality such as new systems to manage the process lifecycle reclaim memory or lead the transition to a 64-bit OS architecture. You will also dive into other teams code to diagnose and resolve significant power issues and will build and maintain tools to help all engineers model and analyze performance and memory.n

As a Senior Systems Engineer on this team you will:nnWork at many layers of the system software stack from firmware or kernel layers up to application layers to create new experiences by leveraging hardware in new SWs needs for future hardware i.e. by modeling and projecting memory demand over the whole lifetime of a new SoCnEngage in investigative and research-like projects to explore and prototype solutions for complex open-ended and address functional and performance issues at the language runtime and kernel layers as well as in application and system new software components frameworks and with cross-functional teams to define design and ship new features.n

8 years industry technical understanding and hands-on experience with software development and lifecycle with low-level OS systems i.e. kernel Darwin or experience with power and performance measurement and investigation computer science communication and interpersonal skills for collaborating with a technical team.

Experience defining and contributing to application or systems to work with technology partners at all levels of the stack from hardware sensors and firmware to frameworks and in additional technical areas like Graphics UI or problem-solving and debugging skills especially with ambiguous or undefined problems.