Software Power Systems Engineer

San Diego, California, United States
Software and Services

Summary

Posted:
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number:200498500
Are you excited to help shape Apple's future software features? Do you desire to understand the ins and outs of Apple’s operating systems and services? You will have that opportunity on the Software Power Systems team. We're looking for a passionate and hardworking person to join our amazing team, and we'd love to hear from you. You will be challenged to influence Apple’s latest features and technologies to ensure they ship with excellent battery life. You will dive into how different features and system services are designed, and work with cross-functional teams to improve the energy efficiency of their code. We constantly look to innovate on energy efficiency and find ways to safeguard our customer's battery life experience while providing 3rd party developers a rich platform to build impactful features. Every ounce of energy you save will impact millions of users and devices, resulting in a greener earth!

Key Qualifications

  • Strong system level understanding
  • Deep understanding of networking and operating system concepts
  • Excellent debugging skills to tackle challenging problems
  • Ability to independently learn new technologies, prototype and design software solutions
  • Excellent spoken and written communication skills
  • Experience working with many cross-functional teams
  • Experience with development on embedded platforms
  • Strong coding skills, preferably in C/C++/Objective C

Description

You’ll be working closely with many cross-functional teams to optimize battery usage of software features across all layers in the software stack on multiple platforms. You’ll have the opportunity to refine existing APIs or build new energy efficient APIs to help developers complete tasks more efficiently. You will also be able to develop software to help with triage of such issues, and work with analytics data to understand large scale trends and hot spots. To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone with great communication and cross- functional skills, strong OS and systems background, a good sense of software architecture, and strong debug/triage skills.

Education & Experience

B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

Additional Requirements

Pay & Benefits