Software Developer - Battery User Experience
Apple
Software Engineering, Design
Cupertino, CA, USA
USD 126,800-220,900 / year + Equity
Posted on Dec 19, 2025
Do you love creating elegant solutions to complex challenges? Are you committed to user experience? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment? If so, we would love to hear from you! At Apple, we constantly look to improve energy efficiency and are always finding ways to enrich our customer's battery life and charging experience. In this role, you will help millions of users every day by providing context and understanding around something that's become fundamental to modern life. More than that, youʼll help users discover ways to actively improve their experience on all current and future iOS, watchOS, and macOS products. Be part of an amazing new team focused on developing innovative solutions for battery user experience!
We are looking for motivated engineer with excellent problem solving, creative, and interpersonal skills. In this role, you will collaborate with teams across Apple to learn about upcoming HW technologies and SW features, develop on-device models and accounting for their impact, and build systems and UI to help inform and educate users. To be successful in this role, you must have a keen interest in understanding how systems work end to end, and be able to think of innovative solutions for a great user experience. It will also require experience in software architecture and computer systems and strong debug/triage skills.
- Architect end-to-end solutions for improving user experience and perception of battery life, charging, and thermal performance
- Leverage data analytics and user studies to identify and prioritize key opportunities
- Develop subsystem power models and energy accounting systems for upcoming hardware and software features
- Build user-facing systems and interfaces to educate and guide users toward a better experience
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver on user experience goals
- Proficiency in object-oriented programming in a systems language (e.g. C++, Objective-C, Swift)
- Demonstrated innovative, critical thinking and troubleshooting skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- 3+ years of embedded/OS SW development experience
- Experience with SW architecture and development of UI applications
- Passion for user experience and strong intuition for empathy in design
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