Performance Control Software Engineer - Platform Architecture - Beaverton, United States
Originally posted 16 September 2026 by the employer.
Focus on the relationship between power and performance in Apple’s most advanced systems.
About the role
This role involves measuring, analyzing, and controlling the relationship between power and performance in Apple's advanced systems. You will study the execution of workloads on Apple silicon across all Apple platforms to invent new operating system performance control features.
What you'll do
- Design and conduct performance experiments.
- Create instrumentation and data visualizations.
- Prototype innovative in-kernel performance control algorithms.
- Collaborate with teams from the core operating system through user-facing applications.
- Productize software that controls performance for workloads on Apple products.
What you'll need
- BS in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering or similar engineering degree.
- Experience with operating system design and implementation.
- Kernel software development experience in C or C++.
Nice to have
- Minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience.
- MS in Computer Science or Electrical and Computer Engineering or similar engineering degree.
- Knowledge of computer architecture and hardware performance monitoring instrumentation.
- Userland software development experience in environments such as C, C++, Swift or Python.
- Experience with system-level performance profiling, debugging tools, and tracing frameworks (e.g., DTrace, Instruments, perf).
- Familiarity with data analysis, statistical modeling, or visualization techniques to interpret complex power and performance metrics.
Skills: operating system design, kernel software development, performance control, Apple silicon, workloads
This role has been open 22 days — well below the 58-day median for Systems Software Engineering roles.
Systems Software Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
679
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Median days open
58 d
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Median salary
$213k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Apple | All employers we track in this specialty (679 roles · 73 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 11 | 679 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 43 | 6085 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 22 d | 58 d (−36 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $213k |
Skills observed across this category: operating system design, kernel software development, performance control, Apple silicon, workloads
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 168 open roles · median 73 d
- NVIDIA · 127 open roles · median 51 d
- AMD · 61 open roles · median 49 d
- Mobileye · 29 open roles · median 72 d
- Broadcom · 22 open roles · median 44 d
- Arm Holdings · 20 open roles · median 106 d
How we counted: 679 open Systems Software Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 73 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.