Apple Watch Software Engineer
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Do you want to help deliver the next amazing Apple product? As a Software Engineer on the Apple Watch Setup Experiences team, you'll bring your top notch engineering skills and eye for quality to help deliver a delightful, reliable, and expertly-polished out-of-box-experience for every Apple Watch user. Beyond device pairing, you'll support Control Center, help create onboarding experiences for exciting new features, and play a defining role in the future of our products.
Description
Our team is responsible for the first impression users have with watchOS. As a member of the team you will work closely with Design, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and other Engineering teams to help make device configuration and customization simple and easy. You'll take collaborative ownership of the development and quality of a number of important facets of watchOS and iOS, including the Settings app and Control Center on Apple Watch, Device Finding experiences, the Watch app on iPhone, and a number of frameworks leveraged by teams across Apple.
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- Collaborating closely with the Design team to open up the boundaries of human-computer interactions.
- Crafting efficient solutions tailored to the constraints of a small, low power device.
- Working closely with teams across all of Apple to architect robust and maintainable systems that will stand the test of time.
- Coordinating with our QA and Automation partner teams for full test coverage to ensure that we meet the high expectations our users have come to expect.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience optimizing applications, widgets, daemons, and profiling/debugging throughout the stack.
Experience improving and expanding on existing complex projects and systems.
A strong intuition for UI/UX design.
An interest in building consumer facing applications and being an advocate for the best user experience possible.
Passionate Apple Watch user or are open to becoming one.
Minimum Qualifications
BS CE/CS or equivalent experience.
5+ years of related experience
Excellent Swift and Objective-C coding ability.
Ability to jump between and learn a variety of programming languages and technologies (Objective-C, Swift, SwiftUI, Assembly, Python, C, ML technologies).
A proven record of completing projects on-time and to-specification.
Experience contributing to at least one shipping application or framework.
Operating Systems knowledge, hands-on experience with inter-process communication.
Excellent communication and collaborative skills. Enthusiasm about working on a cross functional team.
Upbeat, adaptable, helpful, and results oriented.
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