13 days ago
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement spatial FaceTime, SharePlay, Spatial Personas, and nearby-sharing experiences across Apple platforms.
- Build and improve system services, frameworks, daemons, real-time synchronization, and developer APIs.
- Design distributed and multi-process systems with correct state synchronization, consistency, and failure handling.
- Prototype and write production code while turning findings into durable architectural improvements.
- Design reliable and secure inter-process communication and debug intermittent issues across processes and devices.
- Drive technical direction across multiple partner teams without direct management authority.
- Serve as a technical contact for app teams adopting SharePlay and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- 10+ years of experience building system-level frameworks, services, or daemons shipped in production.
- Proven experience leading the architecture of distributed or multi-process systems, including state synchronization, consistency, and failure handling.
- Expert proficiency in Swift, including modern concurrency, and working proficiency in Objective-C.
- Experience designing inter-process communication and reliable, secure system services.
- Ability to debug complex intermittent issues across multiple processes or devices.
- Ability to set technical direction across multiple teams without direct management authority.
- Preferred experience with real-time communication or collaboration technologies, CRDTs, replicated-data synchronization, peer-to-peer or proximity-based networking, visionOS, RealityKit, ARKit, spatial computing, public APIs, third-party developers, backwards compatibility, legacy-system replacement, and AI-assisted or agentic coding tools.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and comfort serving as a technical point of contact for multiple partner teams.
Tech Stack
Objective-CSwift
Categories
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.