Lead Software Engineer - Apple

ParamountBurbank, CA
$164,640 - $246,960Onsite

About The Position

Paramount Streaming is seeking a Lead Engineer, Apple to join the AI Engagement Engine team as a senior individual contributor. This role will focus on building high-performance, user-facing features that power content discovery and personalization across Paramount+ and Pluto TV applications on iOS and tvOS. The successful candidate will work cross-functionally with backend, machine learning, data, and platform teams to deliver scalable and seamless user experiences. This engineer will own complex technical initiatives end-to-end, contribute to the architecture of Apple applications, and partner with technical leadership to establish engineering best practices. AI-assisted development is a core expectation for this role. Candidates should demonstrate daily use of AI coding tools, experience evaluating AI-generated code, and familiarity with LLM- and ML-powered product experiences such as recommendations, search, personalization, and conversational interfaces.

Requirements

  • Expert-level Swift development experience.
  • Deep knowledge of iOS, tvOS, and Xcode.
  • Strong understanding of memory management, concurrency, animations, and performance optimization.
  • Experience integrating RESTful APIs and backend services.
  • Strong architectural and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience with A/B testing, feature flagging, and client-side experimentation frameworks.
  • Experience integrating advertising technologies into Apple applications.
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and mentoring abilities.
  • Daily hands-on use of AI coding assistants.
  • Experience with prompt engineering and evaluating AI-generated code.
  • Working knowledge of LLMs, embeddings, retrieval systems, and AI application design considerations.
  • Experience building or prototyping AI-powered product features.
  • Understanding of responsible AI practices, including privacy, attribution, and review processes.
  • 7+ years of Apple platform development experience.
  • Significant contribution to at least one publicly released iPhone application.
  • Demonstrated use of AI coding tools in day-to-day engineering work.
  • Experience working in Agile development environments.

Nice To Haves

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience integrating video and rich media into mobile applications.
  • Experience building personalized, data-driven, or server-driven user experiences.
  • Experience shipping ML- or LLM-powered mobile features.
  • Experience in entertainment, media, sports, gaming, or news industries.
  • Continuous integration and automated testing.
  • Streaming video technologies and DRM.
  • Localization tools and practices.
  • Swift Package Manager.
  • Experience evaluating AI model quality, latency, and cost trade-offs.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to architectural decisions, frameworks, and tooling for iOS and tvOS applications.
  • Design, develop, test, debug, and deploy native Apple platform applications.
  • Drive application performance, reliability, accessibility, and scalability.
  • Utilize AI coding assistants such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent as part of daily development workflows.
  • Collaborate on ML- and LLM-driven product features including recommendations, search, ranking, and content understanding.
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance.
  • Partner with Product, Design, Data, Backend, and Client Engineering teams to deliver features.
  • Manage multiple projects simultaneously and proactively identify risks and dependencies.

Benefits

  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • 401(k) plan
  • life insurance coverage
  • disability benefits
  • tuition assistance program
  • PTO
  • bonus eligible
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