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Software Engineer, OS and System Services

Apple, Inc.
Washington, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 8/31/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 9/30/2026
The Apple Cloud Engineering team is looking for an exceptional software engineer to build and integrate software to orchestrate workloads across highly performant and energy efficient systems that will power the next generation of data centers.

In this highly collaborative role, you will be at the center of multiple efforts to utilize hardware acceleration for machine learning and high performance computing workloads. You will be part of a team that builds and maintains system software such as kernel drivers, runtime libraries, frameworks, and daemons that will power the next generations of data centers. You will partner with teams across Apple to adapt, tailor, and scale software on a novel compute platform and will help to build the foundation of our future cloud architecture.

We are looking for someone with proven mastery building and managing scalable, resilient systems. You should have a strong mix of education and practical experience with a real passion for diving head first into challenging problems.

Description

We are seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join our System Software Team focused on optimizing and maintaining the core infrastructure of our data center environments. You will work cross-functionally with architecture, platform design, SOC architects, and software teams to develop and integrate best in class hardware, software, and services. You will be responsible for building and maintaining system infrastructure that powers the next generation of data centers. You will ensure high quality and agility with unit tests, integration tests and performance tests. You will occasionally go on-call to support the high quality software you deploy.

You are the right match if:

You possess strong skills in software design and programming.

You are passionate about developing new features, maintaining existing code, fixing bugs.

You have strong problem-solving skills.

You are skilled at the art of communicating and enjoy it

Minimum Qualifications

5 years of software engineering experience

Proficiency in C/C

Strong knowledge of operating system and firmware development fundamentals

Passion for software architecture, APIs, and high performance extensible software

Excellent communication skills

Creative, collaborative, and product-focused

Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Good grasp of system integration and passion for new hardware bringup

Experience with fleet software management (configuration management, software deployment, OTA) and debugging software at scale

Experience with AI accelerators (GPUs, TPUs, ASICs)

Good understanding of networking protocols, crypto key exchange algorithms, and/or distributed systems is a plus

Experience with Swift, Objective-C and Apple development tools

Demonstrated innovative and creative thinking capabilities

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