Job Details

AR/VR Software Development Engineer

Cupertino, California, United States

Software and Services

Summary

Posted: May 22, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200603916

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn’t have imagined, and now, can’t imagine living without. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do.

Description

APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Collaborate with algorithm and framework teams to integrate AR/VR algorithms for the Apple Vision Pro, following best practice software development processes and by optimizing for real-time performance. Lead the design of C++/Metal GPU framework to reduce encoding bandwidth for algorithm verification and future-proofing integration tests by replicating hardware transformations. Writing unit tests to validate design. Architect low-light mitigation framework and prior-augmentation algorithm for hand-occlusion using Objective-C++/Metal to improve algorithm metrics and enhance user experience. Work on cutting-edge technology to integrate state-of-the-art algorithms that enable a high-quality user experience across a range of tentpole use cases and applications. Collaborate with software and hardware engineers across different development teams (e.g. camera engineering, drivers/OS, computer vision & graphics, software frameworks, etc.) for bringup of new hardware platforms and prototypes. Design and maintain APIs, benchmark and optimize code to improve performance, refining implementations and delivering high-quality production code. Debugging and triage of issues on new and existing platforms. Contribute to unit tests, code-reviews, as well as architectural reviews. 40 hours/week. At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $175,800 - $264,200/yr and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

PAY & BENEFITS: Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits: https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.

• Education and/or experience must include the following skills:

• Using C and C++ to work on multi-language codebases.

• Using modern languages such as Swift, Python or Rust.

• Using classical and Deep Learning approaches to solve problems in computer vision such as classification, segmentation, super-resolution, 3d-reconstruction.

• Using 3d math and linear algebra to implement features and debug problems in computer vision or computer graphics.

• Working with computer vision libraries such as OpenCV, scikit-image, etc.

• Using machine learning libraries such as Pytorch or Tensorflow to train and validate Deep Learning networks.

• Using tools like TensorRT for real-time performance on hardware to optimize machine learning solutions.

• Using Metal, OpenCL or CUDA to set up graphics or compute processing pipelines and kernels using the GPU and debugging their correctness and performance.

• Image processing, performing pre- and post-processing on images for algorithm data-flows.

• Writing unit and functional tests for new and existing software.

• Finding and fixing bugs in existing production code-bases.

• Writing software to interact with low-level system apis or drivers to control hardware functionality.

• Using TCP/UDP communication between devices to write software using low-level networking.

• Utilizing networking concepts like routing, DNS, and P2P networking.

Preferred Qualifications

• N/A

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