Senior Software Manager - UI Performance and Power

Apple's Compositing, Color, and Display Software organization provides the graphics software foundation for all of Apple's innovative products, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac and Apple Watch. Our goal is to enable developers and HI designers to create exceptional visual experiences by efficiently utilizing hardware acceleration and color technologies through compositing and display. The technologies we develop are central to enabling enhanced experiences across our platforms, including acceleration for Liquid Glass UI material and presenting HDR content with the highest quality.\\n\\nIf you are passionate about delivering smooth animations, exceptional visual quality, and great battery life to millions of users worldwide, we want to hear from you. If you're excited about maximizing the latest capabilities of our Apple SoCs and Graphics APIs to enable stunning visual effects, this role is for you!

We're seeking an exceptional software manager who combines deep technical expertise with strong cross-functional leadership to drive performance analysis and optimization across all our platforms. As manager of our UI Performance and Power team, you will play a key role in delivering the core graphics compositing engine behind every Apple device that renders to a display. You will also oversee the development of tools and processes that enable rapid iteration from design to deployment of high-performance UI.\n\nAs part of the UI Rendering and Compositing team, you will play a central role within our UI Stack. You will collaborate closely with UI and Media Framework teams, HI designers, and System App developers to optimize visual experiences across our devices. Partnering with our Metal graphics framework and OS components, including Display and GPU drivers, you'll take full advantage of our platform capabilities to efficiently accelerate graphics. Your work will also shape power and performance management policies to balance responsiveness with battery life, and influence future hardware and software features for next-generation devices and future software releases.\n

10+ years of experience working in or leading software development, including software release management and integration processes\n\nProven track record managing high-performing technical teams with deep expertise, driving outcomes through active performance management across large cross-functional initiatives\n\nDemonstrated ability defining, planning and executing complex large-scale projects involving multiple teams\n\nExperience with performance optimizations\n\nHands-on experience with real-time rendering and computer graphics\n\nStrong foundational understanding of Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, and CPU/GPU programming\n\nStrong debugging and triaging skills for complex, multi-layered systems issues\n\nStrong background in C/C++ programming and experience with tools or application development\n\nProven ability to define processes and drive automation to increase productivity\n\nDemonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly and apply them effectively\n\nBachelor's or Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related field\n\n

Hands-on experience with Metal or modern graphics APIs such as DirectX or Vulkan\n\nExperience with Mac application development using Swift or Objective-C\n\nKnowledge of advanced power management and power/battery-life analysis techniques\n\nFamiliarity with color formats and assessing visual quality\n\nExperience with automated performance testing and regression analysis systems\n\nExperience shipping consumer products at scale and working across hardware and software\n\nTrack record of influencing technical strategy and making data-driven recommendations\n\n