Job Details

Role Number: 200661344-0836

Summary

The Swift Language Team at Apple is a unique opportunity to evolve the Swift programming language through language design and compiler implementation. We are a fast-paced and highly-collaborative group working toward improving the safety, expressivity, and approachability of writing code in Swift as well as improving the developer experience and productivity through type checker performance, diagnostics, and other compiler-driven tools for understanding Swift code. Drawing from your own experience writing code, internalizing a programming model, and working with developer tools, you will bring diverse perspectives and a desire to help solve the problems you’ve encountered in your own development work.

Description

This position requires a highly creative and self-motivated individual, capable of communicating with and giving feedback to others in a range of roles across software engineering at Apple, the open source Swift community, and beyond. You will have the opportunity to affect design decisions not only on the Swift programming language and its developer-facing tools, but also general programming patterns, applications of Swift, and community building/outreach across the Swift ecosystem. Iteration and innovation are key to this role.

You should relish change, and be prepared to question commonly established practices, with the desire to create the best possible experience to enrich the lives of programmers, both current and future.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience with programming in a statically-typed language such as (but not limited to) C++ or Swift.

• Familiarity with algorithms and data structures.

• Proven ability for iterative design and technical communication.

• Curiosity for understanding a programming mental model and how code works “under the hood”.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with compiler development.

• Experience with academic programming language research.