Lead Software Engineer - Apple

Paramount•Burbank, CA

5h•$164,640 - $246,960•Onsite

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.