Location Software Engineer

Summary

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.

Description

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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Minimum Qualifications

• 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 modeling

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge 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