Apple
Performance Control Software Engineer - Platform Architecture
$175K–$278K
Austin, Texas +3 · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Location
- Austin, Texas
Beaverton, Oregon
Cupertino, California
San Diego, California - Experience
- Minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience (preferred qualification).
- Education
- BS in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or similar engineering degree; MS in a related field is preferred.
About the job
Measures and analyzes power–performance behavior on Apple silicon and develops operating-system features and kernel software to control performance across Apple platforms.
What you'll do
- Design, prototype, implement, and review kernel features for performance control, power management, and scheduling.
- Conduct experiments to characterize execution efficiency and physical constraints, and analyze power–performance tradeoffs.
- Collaborate across architecture, silicon, OS, system integration, and application teams to improve Apple silicon measurement and control.
What they ask for
- BS in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or a similar engineering degree.
- Experience with operating system design and implementation.
- Kernel software development experience in C or C++.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of computer architecture and hardware performance monitoring instrumentation.
- Experience with system-level performance profiling, debugging tools, tracing frameworks, or data analysis and visualization.
Pay
$175,000 and $263,300 (USD base salary); $184,700 and $277,600 (USD base salary)
Tools
C, C++, Swift, Python, DTrace, Instruments, perf
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