iPhone Software Engineer

Description Experience Apple

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The iPhone Applications team is looking for a proactive, highly motivated engineer to contribute to current and future application technologies. Our team's software is responsible for many of the foundational application technologies that help orchestrate and unify the iPhone and iPod touch user experience including the home screen, touch event routing, Spotlight search UI, process management, user alerts, and the on-screen status bar, to name a few.

As an engineer on the iPhone team, your responsibilities will range from implementing new features to fixing bugs and improving performance. You should have an excellent understanding of object-oriented software design and 5+ years of programming, a solid C programming background, good debugging skills and an eagerness to work hard and learn a lot. As our team works cross-functionally with many other groups across our software stack, you should have a good understanding of systems and excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Required Experience:

BS in computer science or equivalent experience
Strong object oriented programming and design skills
Experience developing at the application and user interface level with at least one of the following: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Java, C#, .NET, Win32, WindowsCE.
Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and communication skills
Excellent understanding of optimization and performance issues across OS software layers

Additional Success Factors:
Knowledge of Objective-C
Knowledge of Apple�s development APIs (Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, CoreFoundation, CoreGraphics, etc)
Experience developing reusable public or private APIs
Experience designing systems with many moveable parts

Requirements Please refer to the Job Description for the qualifications.