Apple
Sr. Software Frameworks Engineer, Sensing & Connectivity
$142K–$263K
San Diego, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years professional software engineering experience (preferred).
About the job
Designs and maintains system-level privacy controls and frameworks across Apple platforms, including safeguards for generative AI and on-device intelligent features.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, and debug production systems and permission frameworks across Apple operating systems.
- Strengthen privacy architecture and build foundational components, reliable daemons, and system APIs.
- Develop privacy controls for AI workflows, including consent, data minimization, sandboxing, and on-device inference.
What they ask for
- Proficiency in C, Objective-C, C++, or Swift.
- Experience designing system-level APIs and background daemons.
- Strong Unix-like systems programming knowledge, including reliable daemon lifecycle management and fault-tolerant error handling.
- Clear technical communication skills; familiarity with AI-powered tools and ability to use them in daily workflows.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience; experience with privacy or security architecture, technical leadership, or macOS/Unix systems programming.
- Full software development lifecycle experience; relational database or local storage familiarity; practical generative AI engineering tools or responsible AI experience.
Pay
USD $142,300 to $263,300 base salary
Tools
C, Objective-C, C++, Swift, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS
AI focus
Design privacy and consent controls for AI-driven workflows; limit sensitive data access, enforce data minimization and sandboxing for on-device models, and build privacy-preserving on-device inference. Familiarity with AI-powered tools in daily workflows is required.
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative