Software Engineer, Accessability

Apple

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About The Position

At Apple we believe that technology is most powerful when it empowers everyone. The Speech and Vision Accessibility team is hiring a software engineer to help us build assistive technologies that millions of iPhone and iPad users rely on every day. There's a lot of variety in the engineering — from the UI our users interact with, to real-time audio and speech synthesis, to the system-level infrastructure that ties it all together. You might pick up a new VoiceOver capability and see it through from research and design to its first adoption. That could mean designing a new interaction model, working on the audio pipeline that delivers spoken output, or coordinating state across system processes — then partnering with the first-party app teams who'll use it. Many of the problems we work on span the whole system. You'll trace an issue from a user-visible behavior in one of our products, down through system frameworks and services, and into a specific app — then decide where the fix really belongs.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent
• 3+ years of relevant software engineering experience
• Proficiency in Swift and Objective-C
• Experience building iOS apps with UIKit (and ideally SwiftUI)
• Strong debugging skills using Xcode and lldb
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice To Haves

• Experience adopting iOS accessibility APIs in apps you've built
• Experience with assistive technologies — as a user, developer, or researcher
• Experience designing public framework APIs that ship to a wide developer audience
• Performance profiling and optimization experience on iOS
• Experience debugging across multiple frameworks or processes
• Aptitude for independently learning new technologies
• Passion for quality and attention to detail

Responsibilities

• Designing a new interaction model
• Working on the audio pipeline that delivers spoken output
• Coordinating state across system processes
• Partnering with first-party app teams
• Tracing an issue from a user-visible behavior in one of our products, down through system frameworks and services, and into a specific app — then deciding where the fix really belongs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level