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Apple

Darwin Runtime Engineer, Core OS

Cupertino, CA · On-site

The team operates at the intersection of operating systems, programming language design, systems security, and high-performance computing. As a Software Engineer on the team, you'll work closely with ...

Jane Street

Software Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

The projects you will work on are as varied and diverse as those full-timers work on, covering a wide range of problems, from high performance trading systems to programming language design and ...

Jane Street

Software Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

The projects you will work on are as varied and diverse as those full-timers work on, covering a wide range of problems, from high performance trading systems to programming language design and ...

Jane Street

Software Engineer

New York, NY

The projects you will work on are as varied and diverse as those full-timers work on, covering a wide range of problems, from high performance trading systems to programming language design and ...

Jane Street

Software Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

The projects you will work on are as varied and diverse as those full-timers work on, covering a wide range of problems, from high performance trading systems to programming language design and ...

HIKINEX

Founding Design Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

... the product's design language while building production-ready frontend applications ... developer tools, enterprise SaaS, infrastructure, platform software, or AI products. • Self ...

HIKINEX

Founding Design Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Founding Design Engineer Location: San Francisco, CA (On-site, 5 days/week) Compensation: $150,000 ... Establish the company's design language, design system, and UX patterns. * Collaborate closely with ...

Clark

Founding Product Designer

New York, NY · On-site

$150K - $210K/yr

You'll help establish our design language, influence product direction, and shape how customers ... Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Audit Engineers, and customers to understand workflows ...

Hikinex

Founding Design Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

Founding Design Engineer Location: San Francisco, CA (On-site, 5 days/week) Compensation: $150,000 ... Establish the company's design language, design system, and UX patterns. * Collaborate closely with ...

Apple

Machine Learning Compiler Engineer

Sunnyvale, CA · On-site

... programming language design, particularly with MLIR and LLVM Proven expertise in compiler design and architecture, including deep experience with front-end and middle-end optimizations, register ...

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Darwin Runtime Engineer, Core OS

Cupertino, CA • On-site

Apple
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing • 10K+ employees
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Full-time

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Company rating: 8.1 out of 10

Based on 684 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

Job description

The people here at Apple don't just build products, we build the kind of wonder that revolutionise entire industries. Imagine what you could do here! Do you have a passion for understanding how each line of code affects all the others? In the Core Operating Systems group ensuring the OS is inseparable from each device's identity as a whole. That's because this group is committed to building fully integrated operating systems that combine hardware, software, and apps into a single Apple experience. Your dedication to cross-disciplinary collaboration will help develop groundbreaking technologies, such as iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. By crafting these distinct, complete user experiences, you'll continue to uphold and advance the excellence people expect from Apple devices! The Darwin Runtime team in Core OS is looking for enthusiastic engineers interested in developing low-level system technologies for Apple's operating systems.
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The Darwin Runtime team is responsible for building the low-level runtime technologies like Grand Central Dispatch (GCD), secure inter-process communication systems, memory allocator, threading library, and concurrency and synchronization primitives. The team operates at the intersection of operating systems, programming language design, systems security, and high-performance computing. As a Software Engineer on the team, you'll work closely with kernel engineers, security architects, and framework developers to deliver foundational technologies that enable Apple's next-generation computing platforms.The ideal candidate should be self-motivated and effective in operating independently, with a desire to learn and develop technical leadership. Team members are welcome and encouraged to participate in design discussions, code reviews, and development across multiple technologies. Our environment fosters technical innovation, meaningful technology ownership, and a liberating amount of autonomy!
Minimum Qualifications
BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent degree
0-3+ years of relevant industry experience in low level systems programming
Passion for low-level system technologies
Fluency in the C programming language
Experience with UNIX-like systems
System design and architecture skills
Strong understanding of operating system fundamentals like threading, synchronization primitives, inter-process communication, scheduling, and virtual memory
Excellent collaborative skills, with the ability to work with a team to design system architecture
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with compiler design, including lexical analysis, parsing, semantic analysis, and code generation
Knowledge of capability-based security models, sandboxing, and secure IPC mechanisms
Knowledge of operating system implementation, hardware architecture and assembly programming
Knowledge of Swift or Objective-C
Skilled at interface and/or API design
Experience with lldb or gdb

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Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, intelligent people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products. The same real passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our dedication to leave the world better than we found it.

Industry

Computer and electronic product manufacturing

Company size

10,000+ Employees

Headquarters location

Cupertino, CA, US

Year founded

1976

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