About the position
Our Trust and Safety team is responsible for ensuring the trust and safety of Apple services through a combination of threat modeling, data-driven policy, and machine learning. We are seeking an iOS Software Engineer who can help us build and maintain high-quality client frameworks and libraries in the iOS and MacOS SDKs for safeguarding user experiences on Apple devices. We invite you to help advance and augment our existing portfolio of internal and public frameworks, in order to keep up with evolving platform architectures in an adversarial environment. Some publicly available APIs and features we are responsible for include DeviceCheck framework, and the Safety Check feature. Our team builds on-device solutions to support Apple's Trust and Safety mission, covering Apple products spanning interpersonal safety, the developer ecosystem, phishing, and anti-spam. You will be responsible for maintaining and improving existing iOS SDK framework features in Objective-C and Swift, and implementing new and innovative ideas for the future. You will also be working hand-in-hand with other engineers across Interpersonal Safety, App Store, OS, Platform Security teams, and our partners at other companies who rely on our frameworks. We foster a collaborative work environment, and encourage solution autonomy on projects. Our goals are simple but the task is large; build the most trustworthy platform for publishing apps that all Apple Developers will love.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and improve existing iOS SDK framework features in Objective-C and Swift.
- Implement new and innovative ideas for the future.
- Collaborate with other engineers across various teams including Interpersonal Safety, App Store, OS, and Platform Security.
- Work with partners at other companies who rely on our frameworks.
Requirements
- Strong programming skills in Objective-C or Swift.
- Demonstrated ability to translate technical information into a compelling narrative to other technical experts, designers, and non-technical stakeholders alike.
- Bachelor's degree in either Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
- At least 3 years of relevant industry experience.
Nice-to-haves
- Prior experience in a Safety Engineering or Security Engineering role.
- Experience with asynchronous programming, manual memory management, and designing APIs for other teams.
- Proficient at quickly reading and understanding unfamiliar code and APIs written by others.
- Capable of working autonomously to make timely and sound decisions about task priority.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
- Retirement benefits.
- Discounted products and free services.
- Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition.
- Opportunity to participate in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs.
