2 days ago
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and debug production privacy systems across Apple platforms.
- Architect permission and consent frameworks for conventional and AI-driven workflows.
- Build system-level APIs and reliable background daemons with robust lifecycle management and fault-tolerant error handling.
- Strengthen privacy architecture against evolving threat vectors and enforce data minimization and sandboxing for on-device AI models.
- Build privacy-preserving on-device inference and foundational cross-operating-system components.
- Reason about machine learning data-access implications and develop guardrails and safety mechanisms for intelligent features.
Requirements
- Proficiency in C, Objective-C, C++, or Swift.
- Experience designing system-level APIs and background daemons.
- Strong Unix-like systems programming knowledge.
- Experience building reliable daemons with robust lifecycle management and fault-tolerant error handling.
- Clear technical communication skills.
- Familiarity with AI-powered tools and ability to incorporate them into daily workflows.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience preferred.
- Preferred experience includes privacy or security software architecture, cross-functional technical leadership, macOS or Unix systems programming, and full software development lifecycle experience.
- Familiarity with relational database and local storage design preferred.
- Practical experience with generative AI tools such as AI-assisted code generation or LLM-powered debugging preferred.
- Experience with responsible AI practices, including AI safety, privacy-preserving machine learning, or guardrails for intelligent features, preferred.
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