The cloudOS team at Apple is looking to solve the problem of delivering OS and system services on Apple silicon servers, including driving hardware and software initiatives to enable new Apple silicon-based systems in data centers.
Requirements
- Familiarity with init systems (systemd, launchd, upstart) and service orchestration.
- Knowledge of distributed systems, cloud computing, and large-scale data center infrastructure
- Experience with Swift, Objective-C and Apple development tools
- Experience with AI accelerators (GPUs, TPUs, ASICs) or distributed systems
- Knowledge of container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and AI workload orchestration.
- Proficiency in one of C/C++, Obj-C, Swift
- Strong knowledge of OS architecture, and low-level system components.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and optimize OS-level components for data center infrastructure.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve performance, security, and resource efficiency across distributed systems.
- Troubleshoot and resolve low-level OS issues, networking bottlenecks, and hardware-software integration challenges.
- Contribute to the development of automation, monitoring, and diagnostic tools to improve system reliability.
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and architectural decisions related to OS-level services.
- Stay up to date with emerging OS technologies, virtualization, and containerization trends in data center environments.
- Design, implement, and maintain system daemons that manage hardware components and host processes
Other
- 4+ years of software engineering experience
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Excellent communication skills
- Creative, collaborative, and product-focused
- Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity.
