System Software Engineer

Cambridge Until 9/22/2026 First posted July 24, 2026 Last posted July 24, 2026
Job description

Imagine what you can do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job, and there’s no telling what we can accomplish together.. Do you love crafting elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Can you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? At Apple, our Platform Architecture group is responsible for connecting our hardware and software into one unified system. Join this team, and you’ll collaborate with engineers across Apple to build and deploy forward-looking prototype systems that contribute to the development of our world renowned hardware and software architecture. You and your team will confirm that every product we make performs exactly as intended. Together, our work will be the reason millions of customers feel they can trust their devices every single day.

Description

Apple’s Platform Architecture group is seeking a systems engineer to build high performance functional models of advanced SoC designs and to help bridge the gap between Software and Hardware, influencing performance improvements, power efficiency, security, and the programming ease of Apple products.

Minimum Qualifications

Prototype and analyze architecture and operating system proposals.
Interface kernels and drivers with processor & SoC models.
Work closely with cross-functional teams across product groups.

Preferred Qualifications

Promote new opportunities and techniques with other groups.

About this role

Summary

Build system models, interface kernels, and collaborate on hardware-software integration.

Job title

System Software Engineer

Experience level

null

Industry

software

Location requirements

Cambridge, no remote work allowed

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

architecture modelingoperating systemskernel interfacedriver interfaceSoC

Preferred skills

promote new techniquescross-functional collaboration

Specializations

system modelinghardware-software interfaceSoCarchitecture
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Cambridge, UK

On-site City