Software Development Engineer, Vision Products Group

Apple • Sunnyvale, CA

12h

About The Position

As a Software Development Engineer, you will implement and improve framework features that power real-time experiences across Apple's product ecosystem. You'll work with cross-functional teams to build and optimize components for products like Vision Pro, iPhone, and Mac, contributing to systems that meet demanding performance requirements for latency, jitter, and user experience. This role requires solid technical skills in systems programming, a growing ability to evaluate architectural tradeoffs, and a passion for delivering technology that enables breakthrough product features.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field, and 2 years of relevant industry experience; or Master's degree with 1 year of relevant experience.
• Understanding of operating systems fundamentals including process management, memory management, inter-process communication, concurrent programming, and synchronization primitives.
• Proficiency in C/C++ programming for systems-level development.
• Experience with debugging tools such as gdb or lldb.
• Ability to analyze system performance and identify bottlenecks.
• Familiarity with Gen AI coding tools. Demonstrated ability to use them for design, code generation, and debugging.

Nice To Haves

• Understanding of computer architecture and hardware-software interaction.
• Experience with or interest in resource-constrained Embedded Systems development.
• Familiarity with real-time systems design principles and scheduling algorithms.
• Exposure to performance-critical software development in production systems.
• Interest in or experience with AR/VR systems, spatial computing, or graphics pipelines.
• iOS or macOS development experience using system frameworks.
• Exposure to Objective-C or Swift for platform development.

Responsibilities

• Implement and improve framework features that power real-time experiences across Apple's product ecosystem.
• Work with cross-functional teams to build and optimize components for products like Vision Pro, iPhone, and Mac.
• Contribute to systems that meet demanding performance requirements for latency, jitter, and user experience.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees