2 months 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.
About Apple
Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and services for consumers and professionals worldwide, including iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods, plus platforms like iOS/macOS and services such as the App Store, iCloud, Music, and TV+. Its business combines device sales with services and subscriptions and in-house silicon design. Founded in 1976, Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, and trades on NASDAQ as AAPL.