Sr. Software Engineer for Location and Spatial Awareness - Daemon / Framework engineer, Sensing & Connectivity
Apple
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Cupertino, CA · Posted October 30, 2026
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About the job
Help craft the next generation of capabilities leveraging Apple location and spatial awareness technologies. Our team focuses on innovating, building, and productizing new ways for our devices to be spatially aware of each other, coupling different sensing technologies with sophisticated algorithms and AI/ML to enable new and more intuitive forms of interaction. We nurture new ideas from prototype to production, helping to establish hardware requirements and system design, conduct developmental testing, write production software, and track our results relative to physical and theoretical limits.
This role is for a strong and experienced software generalist to help architect and develop software at the daemon and framework level — someone who thinks carefully about architectural decisions, is disciplined and dedicated to doing it right the first time, and is passionate about continuing a culture of software excellence in both developmental and production software.