Software Engineer, Input Experience Analytics
Apple - Cupertino, CA
posted 5 months ago
About the position
At Apple, our goal is to provide an effortless input experience to everyone, no matter what languages they speak, across modalities, with world-class intelligence at the core. The Input Experience organization is directly responsible for keyboard, pencil, and live text input across multiple platforms. We also work very closely with the Siri speech team to seamlessly integrate dictation into our user's text input. We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer who is passionate about the power of data to drive product innovation and improvements. By joining our Analytics Team, you will help develop on-device telemetry and analysis for a wide range of input experiences. This is a fantastic opportunity for a server-side Analytics Engineer to work on new challenges associated with client-side, privacy preserving metrics. If you believe that data is a powerful way to make our amazing products even better, then we'd like to talk!
Responsibilities
- Partner across engineering groups to collectively design methods to measure the user's input experience.
- Collaborate within and across teams to define the next generation architecture for Input Experience Analytics that will be embedded into our OS platforms.
- Design, implement and test new metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
- Develop applications that complement our embedded analytics.
- Provide assistance to engineers on other teams implementing feature-level metrics.
Requirements
- Proven software engineering background including key concepts such as data structures, algorithms, & object-oriented design.
- 3+ years programming in a modern object-oriented language (e.g., C, C++, Objective C, C#, Java, Swift).
- Systems level programming experience. Application programming experience is a plus.
- Experience with automated testing (e.g., unit, integration, UI) as a means to ensure high quality software.
- Experience or interest in statistics, software metrics, and analytics.
- Experience or curiosity about input technologies such as keyboards or speech.
- Great communication and collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- Retirement benefits
- A range of discounted products and free services
- Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition
- Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
- Relocation assistance
- Opportunity to participate in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs
- Eligibility for discretionary restricted stock unit awards
- Ability to purchase Apple stock at a discount through the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
