Senior Software Engineer, watchOS System Spaces

The watchOS System Spaces group is seeking a new colleague to help us shape the future of Apple Watch. As a senior software engineer on the team you will work on the systems behind the always-running watchOS experience including notifications and alerts. Youll collaborate with talented and creative colleagues to meet ambitious goals in an environment that values curiosity craft and growth. Your work will be experienced by millions of Apple Watch users every day.

This is a systems role at the center of the watchOS experience. The software in this group runs continuously and sits beneath most of what a user does on their watch from notifications to app launch and it works within a small power and memory budget. Designing well in that environment means treating reliability power and memory as part of a feature rather than as follow-up work and being willing to follow a problem into code your team does not experience transfers well here whatever platform you have built on. The engineers who do well on this team enjoy working inside constraints rather than around them. Curious and resourceful people who take an expansive view of their role will thrive in this multidisciplinary environment where youll have the opportunity to collaborate with experts across Apple.n

Design implement and ship new capabilities in the watchOS system experience and shape the interfaces other teams build the reliability of software that spans process and device boundaries and root-cause failures from logs and traces on shipping the architecture of long-lived systems that many teams depend on: state management concurrency and inter-process and optimize for the constraints unique to Apple Watch: latency memory footprint and power with engineers designers and product partners across Apple to keep watchOS coherent with the rest of our for the unique needs and opportunities of the Apple Watch platform in cross-functional forums.

6 years of software development computer science fundamentals; a specific degree or concentration is not building or maintaining systems software: daemons and services inter-process communication concurrency or embedded diagnosing failures that cross process or device with Swift and to work collaboratively and explain complex ideas clearly.

Experience with low-level software on constrained with multi-device or distributed with operating system internals including process lifecycle and improving and expanding on existing complex navigating ambiguity and iterating toward solutions in a fast-moving use of GenAI coding tools to accelerate development without compromising clarity or enthusiasm for wearable technology and for the work of defining what an Apple Watch can be.