Sr. Software Development Engineer, Vision Products Group

Apple is where individual imaginations gather together committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build service we create or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each others ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world changing lives for the better. Its the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in we can do the best work of our lives. Here youll do more than join something youll add our Systems Software Architecture Team under VPG where were pioneering a revolutionary framework thats redefining how Apple products deliver real-time experiences. Our framework enables developers to express workloads as interconnected graphs creating demand-driven systems that optimize for latency and enable zero-copy data access. Originally developed to help visionOS achieve its critical motion-to-photon latency targetsproviding users with a seamless realistic experience through Vision Proour technology is now expanding to iOS and macOS. As Apple deploys LLMs and other real-time features across platforms our framework is becoming essential infrastructure that enables the next generation of Apple product experiences

As a Senior Software Development Engineer you will design and develop critical framework features that power real-time experiences across Apples product ecosystem. Youll collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect solutions for products like Vision Pro iPhone and Mac creating systems that meet demanding performance requirements for latency jitter and user experience. This role requires deep technical expertise in systems programming the ability to navigate complex architectural tradeoffs and a passion for delivering technology that enables breakthrough product features.

Design and implement framework features that enable customer-facing capabilities on visionOS iOS and macOS code using C/C Objective-C and/or architectural RFCs that describe how product features operate and guide the team in developing framework with cross-functional partners to understand requirements and deliver optimized and prioritize incoming issues based on metrics including MTBF client team impact user experience and test tradeoffs between different technical approaches and provide guidance on optimal solutions for complex system performance to meet critical KPIs for latency jitter and resource utilization.

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Electrical Engineering or related field and 5 years of industry foundation in operating systems fundamentals including process management memory management inter-process communication concurrent programming and synchronization in C/C programming for systems-level with debugging tools such as gdb or to analyze system performance and identify with Gen AI coding tools. Demonstrated ability to use them for design code generation and debugging.

Deep understanding of computer architecture and hardware-software with resource-constrained Embedded Systems development and delivering performance-critical features in production of real-time systems design principles and scheduling in safety-critical systems development and with AR/VR systems spatial computing or graphics or macOS development experience using system in Objective-C or Swift for platform development.