Systems Software Engineer

Santa Clara Valley (Cupertino) , California , United States

Software and Services

Summary

Posted: Dec 21, 2020

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200212083

Are you excited by the thought of making your battery last longer or your apps launch faster? Handling resource consumption and contention is a key differentiator for Apple products and the Core OS Dynamic Resource Management team focuses on solving these key resource tradeoff problems. Our goals are to build system infrastructure and APIs that allow our clients to maximize overall user experience within our constraints of battery life, thermals, memory, network usage, and additional factors. The team is looking for innovative candidates to design and implement new capabilities to manage process runtime and resource utilization across our diverse product lines. In this unique and highly visible role, you will be driving, influencing, and assisting cross-functional teams with the adoption of these new operating system concepts. Through the combination of data and performance analysis, software prototyping, and systems engineering, you will push the boundary of what's possible at the core of the operating system.

Key Qualifications

• Strong programming background
• Clear understanding of operating system components and responsibilities
• Ability to deliver high quality work on tight schedules consistently
• Highly professional and collaborative with outstanding communication and presentation skills
• Familiarity with statistics, data analysis, or machine learning and the enthusiasm to learn more
• Proven track record leading software projects from inception through customer delivery

Description

- Design, implement, optimize, and evangelize new operating system constructs to enable intelligent resource management - Analyze, understand, and present key performance data for highly-visible OS features - Write elegant, performant code in Objective-C or Swift and test, debug, and productize it - Rapidly prototype new ideas and features in collaboration with others - Consult with and influence other teams to drive adoption of new APIs

Education & Experience

BS in Computer Engineering or equivalent experience