Software Performance Engineer for Memory

About the position

The OS Performance team is responsible for making your iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch run smoothly and speedily release after release. Come join us if you're interested in making Apple's products run as quickly and smoothly as possible while learning about a large variety of software components. This position will require engaging with other engineering teams to gain a deep understanding of problem domains when developing features and helping them solve those problems with performance in mind. We evangelize best practices, help teams measure and understand their performance as well as optimize their existing software. To do that, as well as to help build the tools needed for analysis, a moderate amount of coding experience is required.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with software teams across Apple to improve performance of iOS, macOS, and watchOS.
• Engage with engineering teams to understand problem domains and develop features with performance in mind.
• Evangelize best practices for performance measurement and optimization.
• Help teams measure and understand their performance.
• Build tools needed for performance analysis.

Requirements

• At least one object-oriented programming language and one scripting language such as Python or Ruby.
• Enjoys debugging or analysis work.
• Experience writing native apps for (or debugging) iOS, macOS, or watchOS preferred.
• BS/MS in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or equivalent.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Xcode Instruments suite.
• Skills for understanding large system architectures.
• Interest in several areas of software (operating systems, graphics, UI Applications, ML, compilers, etc.).
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills.
• Enjoys working in a team environment.
• Competent and has delivered software written in Swift/SwiftUI/Objective-C.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
• Retirement benefits.
• Discounted products and free services.
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition.
• Eligibility for discretionary bonuses or commission payments.
• Relocation assistance.