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Location Software Engineer

Apple Inc

  • Cupertino, CA
  • 14 days ago

    Highlights

    Improve accuracy & reliability of GNSS position estimation in all environments Develop GNSS aiding and corrections data Develop cloud systems for efficient network delivery of GNSS aiding data Own monitoring and alerting systems to ensure quality and availability of GNSS aiding data Manage technical relationships with external data vendors and partners Develop and debug software running on hundreds of millions of devices BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Geomatics, or other engineering discipline Software development experience in C++ Knowledge of statistics & random processes, and experience applying them to sensor data from physical systems Experience with GNSS in areas such as position estimation, satellite orbits/ephemerides, or atmospheric error modelingKnowledge of state estimation techniques, such as Kalman filtering Experience using AI within the engineering process. Experience with GNSS measurements from challenged environments such as mobile devices, indoors, or in urban canyons Software development experience for cloud services.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationCupertino, CA
    IndustryComputer/IT Services
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1976
    Websitehttps://www.apple.com/jobs

    Description

    We build the software and technologies that let Apple products accurately determine their location. Our work reaches more than a billion people, helping them find their way and find each other. If you join our team, you'll research, design, develop, debug, and support location software. You'll also collaborate to qualify performance and support commercialization on multiple hardware families. You'll work with customers of location, both internal and external, to make best use of your work to support their applications. In this role, you will improve GNSS & positioning capabilities that power navigation, workouts, and many other applications on iPhone and other products. For these improvements, you will be responsible for the full cycle of research, design, develop, debug, and support. Your contributions will span all the components necessary to ensure responsive and reliable positioning in all environments, from server data delivery to on-device estimation.Improve accuracy & reliability of GNSS position estimation in all environments Develop GNSS aiding and corrections data Develop cloud systems for efficient network delivery of GNSS aiding data Own monitoring and alerting systems to ensure quality and availability of GNSS aiding data Manage technical relationships with external data vendors and partners Develop and debug software running on hundreds of millions of devices BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Geomatics, or other engineering discipline Software development experience in C++ Knowledge of statistics & random processes, and experience applying them to sensor data from physical systems Experience with GNSS in areas such as position estimation, satellite orbits/ephemerides, or atmospheric error modelingKnowledge of state estimation techniques, such as Kalman filtering Experience using AI within the engineering process. Experience with GNSS measurements from challenged environments such as mobile devices, indoors, or in urban canyons Software development experience for cloud services

    About Company

    We bring amazing people together to make amazing things happen.

    We’re a diverse collection of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, as well as with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. And the same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.

    About Apple

    There’s a place here for every kind of brilliant. Everyone here is an innovator, or an innovator-to-be, no matter what your team or your role. So bring your passion, courage, and original thinking and get ready to share it, because every new product, service, or feature we invent is the result of people working together to make each others’ ideas stronger. Innovation at this level depends on people who represent the variety of the human experience and inspire us with their own fresh perspectives. Together, we’ll do amazing work that can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own. Learn more about working at Apple.

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