Apple's Human Interface Devices (HID) Software team is looking for a System Software Engineer to develop high-performance drivers, frameworks, and tools for innovative sensing technologies across Apple products, ensuring an optimal user experience and contributing to the design of next-generation revolutionary Apple Products.
Requirements
- Experience in driver and framework development, with a focus on writing native code for driver development
- Experience defining communication protocols and implementing transport drivers, such as USB, Bluetooth, and SPI
- Familiarity with the USB HID specification and experience working on sensing technologies (e.g., multi-touch) and user-facing input systems
- Proficiency in profiling code in both kernel and userspace
- Familiarity with IOKit, Objective-C, and other Apple-specific technologies such as iOS/OS X
- strong focus on C/C++ and object-oriented programming
- Comfortable working across both higher-level software design and lower-level systems development
Responsibilities
- maintaining and developing system software for iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS; focusing on drivers, frameworks, and software stacks for future sensing technologies
- integrating hardware and software, ensuring top-tier performance
- mentoring engineers, helping them grow their technical expertise
- defining communication protocols
- implementing transport drivers, such as USB, Bluetooth, and SPI
- working on sensing technologies (e.g., multi-touch) and user-facing input systems
- profiling code in both kernel and userspace
Other
- BS in Computer Science or a related field, and 5 years of experience in system software engineering
- 10 years of industry experience, with a consistent track record of shipping system software to customer or production environments
- Experience implementing customer-facing features, with an emphasis on user experience
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience leading projects from conception to completion
