Safety and Location Software Engineer
- Location
- Cupertino
- Salary range
- USD $150,400 – $277,600 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- Engineering
- Posted
- 3 months ago
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P2, Professional. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $150k to $220k at an employer this size in the San Francisco Bay Area. Key skills at this level: builds and ships detection or enforcement systems in production, evaluates a classifier on the metric that matches the harm, not on accuracy, and works with labeled data of uneven and adversarial quality.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: posts $150k to $278k base at a company over 5,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area · the title reads as P2.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from Apple's posting.
Software engineering on Apple's Safety and Location team, building safety features such as Emergency SOS Live Video, Crash Detection, Fall Detection and SOS via Satellite. The team works with product groups across Apple to push what wireless systems can do on personal devices.
What you'd do
- Design and build the frameworks and background daemons that will power new functionality on upcoming hardware.
- Develop software for safety-critical environments and build test and verification pipelines for reliability.
- Define solutions with team members from product requirements and estimate the scope of work.
- Add support for new software features with teams across Engineering.
- Track down and fix hard bugs where separate software components fail to work together.
What it asks for
- Experience creating application interfaces and wide exposure to system architecture.
- Knowledge of software design paradigms and best practices, including Gen AI assisted and agentic workflows.
- Excellent analytical, programming and debugging skills.
- Familiarity with RF or location estimation basics (preferred).
- Hands-on work designing and debugging frameworks and systems that run multiple threads or processes (preferred).
- Experience with Objective-C or Swift (preferred).
Worth knowing
- Work in a fast-paced environment with aggressive delivery schedules and evolving requirements.
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About Apple

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About Apple
Media and streaming · Marketplaces and commerce · Cupertino, CA · More than 100,000 people · Founded 1976
Consumer hardware and software company, running the App Store, iMessage and iCloud.
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