Our team is new, growing, and evolving quickly, and we are hiring across multiple disciplines. We work at the intersection of machine learning, hardware, and software, creating technologies that reshape how people communicate and experience the world around them in everyday life.
Every breakthrough in hardware starts with a bench, a setup, and a tool someone had to build to make the first measurement possible. We are the team that builds them.
Tools & Infrastructure is a small, growing team that designs the software behind our hardware test setups, lab research rigs, and the proprietary tooling used across the company for dedicated hardware research. Our tools are what let researchers and hardware engineers run experiments, collect data, and trust their results.
We’re looking for a software developer with a real passion for hardware. You enjoy the moment when code makes a physical device do something, you’re comfortable standing at a lab bench, and you take a problem from a vague request to a working solution that people actually use.
Design and build macOS tools and applications, primarily in Python and Swift, for hardware test setups, lab research setups, and lab automation
Develop company-wide tools used by multiple teams for dedicated proprietary hardware research, and support them as real products with real users
Own problems end to end: understand the need with the people at the bench, design the solution, implement, deploy, and iterate until it works in the lab
Integrate with instruments, sensors, and custom hardware over USB, serial, Bluetooth, network, and other lab interfaces
Build supporting infrastructure as needed: cloud dashboards, databases, data pipelines, and reporting for test and research results
Implement algorithms and data-processing logic that turn raw measurements into usable results
Support Windows environments when lab equipment or vendor software requires it
Make advanced AI coding tools a core part of how you build, and help the team move faster with them
Take part in design and code reviews, and help raise the quality and maintainability of the team’s tools
B.Sc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or similar
3+ years of hands-on software development experience, with a track record of shipping tools or applications that others use
Solid working experience in Python applications development
A genuine interest in hardware: comfortable around lab equipment, reading datasheets, and debugging across the hardware/software boundary
Ability to take an open-ended problem and deliver a complete working solution on your own, from requirements to deployment.
Good programming fundamentals: data structures, concurrency, I/O, testing, and debugging
Demonstrated ability to work effectively with advanced AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, or similar) as part of daily engineering practice
Strong communication skills and a service mindset toward internal users such as researchers and hardware engineers
Familiarity with Swift, TypeScript and React and the ability to become productive in it quickly, with experience on macOS
Experience building lab automation, test fixtures, instrument control, or measurement software (e.g., SCPI/VISA, DAQ, oscilloscopes, power supplies)
Experience with hardware interfaces and protocols: USB, UART, SPI/I2C, BLE, or network-based device control
Experience building dashboards and databases for engineering data (web or cloud, SQL/NoSQL)
Experience implementing signal-processing or other algorithms in Python
Experience with Windows development or tooling, and with cross-platform deployment
C, C++, or Objective-C experience for performance-sensitive or driver-adjacent code
Background in embedded or firmware-adjacent development
Hobby or personal hardware projects (electronics, 3D printing, sensors, robotics)
Experience with CI/CD, packaging, and distributing internal tools to many users
Job description provided by Apple.
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