Job Details

Sr. Systems Software Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Role Number: 200618298-0157

The Product Integrity group is looking for a Senior Systems Software Engineer to create future products. As a member of the OS Diagnostics team you will develop and maintain software used to characterize, calibrate and test new hardware, debug software and hardware both independently and multi-functionally, and work with many other teams at Apple and at various contract manufacturers. Your experience writing and debugging software on different hardware platforms will be essential to your success.

Description

You will be responsible for developing, debugging and maintaining internal software running on many Apple products. You will have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of worldwide multi-functional teams including Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Operations, and our Contract Manufacturing partners. You will engage with many products from early development through mass production where your contributions will directly impact hardware quality and end user experiences. Are you ready for your next challenge?!

Responsibilities

• Solving sophisticated problems that will require multi-functional engagement and support.

• Developing applications, frameworks, and command line utilities.

• Maintaining critical manufacturing software running on millions of Apple devices.

• Completing work with effective prioritization, communication, and multitasking abilities.

• Reviewing and implementing hardware test specifications.

• Supporting hardware production locally and remotely (travel up to 25%).

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineer career experience

• BS in CS/CE or meaningful work experience

• Expertise in at least one of C++/Objective-C/Swift

• Experience developing drivers/applications in Unix, Linux, or macOS

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with building embedded system architectures and using interfaces such as I2C, USB, PCIe

• Experience building and debugging distributed applications

• Experience debugging at all levels of an operating system

• Experience with Python/Lua/Bash

• Proven task management

• Effective communication skills

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