What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Development Engineer - Tools Development position at Apple?
Summary
At Apple, our products touch millions of lives every single day with consistency and dependability. Ever wonder how we achieve this?
Our System Architecture & Design team is a group of interdisciplinary performance architects, analysts, software engineers, and expert content creation professionals who explore actual production workflows and everyday use cases to enhance and improve customer experiences on current hardware and software.
As a Tools Developer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the performance excellence of Mac systems under development. You will also be involved with designing, developing, and maintaining automation and tools to measure and analyze system performance and identify bottlenecks. We are also looking for someone who can support teams with debugging performance and test issues, test code, analyze data, identify bugs, and resolve problems as necessary. If this role sounds fun, we would love to hear from you!
Description
In this role, the Tools Developer will assume responsibility for the conception, development, and maintenance of tools and automation essential for analyzing system performance. These will be used for identifying performance bottlenecks, studying how applications apply our hardware, and for reporting performance while products are being developed.
You will support multi-functional teams globally by troubleshooting performance issues, triaging OS issues, addressing testing issues, conducting code reviews, and conducting statistical analysis.
Minimum Qualifications
Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.
At Apple, our products touch millions of lives every single day with consistency and dependability. Ever wonder how we achieve this?
Our System Architecture & Design team is a group of interdisciplinary performance architects, analysts, software engineers, and expert content creation professionals who explore actual production workflows and everyday use cases to enhance and improve customer experiences on current hardware and software.
As a Tools Developer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the performance excellence of Mac systems under development. You will also be involved with designing, developing, and maintaining automation and tools to measure and analyze system performance and identify bottlenecks. We are also looking for someone who can support teams with debugging performance and test issues, test code, analyze data, identify bugs, and resolve problems as necessary. If this role sounds fun, we would love to hear from you!
Description
In this role, the Tools Developer will assume responsibility for the conception, development, and maintenance of tools and automation essential for analyzing system performance. These will be used for identifying performance bottlenecks, studying how applications apply our hardware, and for reporting performance while products are being developed.
You will support multi-functional teams globally by troubleshooting performance issues, triaging OS issues, addressing testing issues, conducting code reviews, and conducting statistical analysis.
Minimum Qualifications
- A minimum of 7 years of industry experience in software development
- Proficiency in a modern programming language like Swift, Objective-C, C , Python; with a proven track record of delivering high-quality software
- At least 2 years experience of using AI/LLMs for generation of production code
- Experience with computer performance measurement and optimization
- Experience with application automation
- Experience with Xcode
- Experience producing compelling visualizations and dashboards
- Experience with back-end development of information systems
- Experience with hardware architecture
- Experience with web front-end development
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.