**Weekly Hours:** 40

**Role Number:** 200626654-3543

**Summary**

“I believe, if you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question, ‘What
was Appleʼs greatest contribution to mankind?ʼ it will be about health.” —Tim Cook, 2019

We build the engine that powers every health or fitness application from Apple and our third
party developers. We hear from our users that we are helping them live better, get stronger,
remember to care for themselves, and even save their lives. Weʼre doing it while keeping their
health data safe, accessible and private, and weʼre pushing the technology and health care
industries to do the same. If you are looking for a role where you can use and develop your
engineering acumen while changing the world for the better, then look no further.

We are looking for talented engineers to keep HealthKit – the very heart of everything related to
health and fitness on Apple platforms – secure, efficient, and ever-growing. We work with
hardware and software teams throughout Apple as well as our developer ecosystem to deliver
ever more functionality that is deeply integrated with iOS, watchOS and all the rest without
sacrificing privacy, power, or performance.

**Description**

As a member of the team, youʼll have the opportunity to work cross-functionally to expand the
functionality of the Health app and HealthKit framework. We collaborate across Apple feature
teams, hardware teams, domain experts like doctors and fitness experts, and our third party
developer ecosystem. Our primary responsibilities are delivering new health and fitness
features, designing solutions for distributed health data storage, performance, OS integration,
and API design and delivery.

**Minimum Qualifications**

+ BS Computer Science or equivalent experience

+ Strong foundation in Computer Science fundamentals

+ 2 years of experience working in Objective-C, Swift, C++ or similar high level programming languages

+ Strong understanding of algorithms and data structures

+ Experience in object-oriented architecture and design

+ Understanding of systems-level concepts like multi-threading and interprocess communication

+ Experience with debugging tools and performance tuning

+ Experience delivering libraries, frameworks or APIs

+ Knowledge of iOS programming and one or more Apple technologies such as Grand Central Dispatch, CloudKit, or XPC Activity/Services

+ Strong communication skills, including ability to collaborate in a diversity of backgrounds and experiences

+ Willingness to learn and improve, and also mentor and support other team members

+ Highly organized, maintaining patience and composure to effectively operate within ambiguity

**Preferred Qualifications**

+ Experience with distributed systems design and development

+ Experience with SQL and database technologies

+ Familiarity with Fitness, Wellness or Medical concepts

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .