The Principal Software Engineer, iOS/VisionOS (Mixed Reality) will be responsible for designing and developing advanced features for our iOS/VisionOS (Mixed Reality) applications, as well as maintaining and optimizing existing features. This person will work closely with the rest of the development team, including designers and backend developers, to ensure that our apps meet the highest standards of quality and performance.
Technical Responsibilities:
- Conduct and design advanced prototyping and testing.
- Conduct advanced problem solving, identify potential solutions, and evaluate them against component and sub-system requirements.
- Conduct and design research and studies to support advanced product design.
- Translate user needs to design inputs/specifications and produce advanced component and sub-system level designs.
- Analyze and correct complex product design issues, using independent judgment.
- Independently balance design tradeoffs while designing a component of the system.
- Develop and design software systems per requirements and defined architecture.
- Develop of Mobile Applications for iOS/VisionOS products include iPads, iPods, iPhones, and VisionPro.
- Develop prototypes for future AR/xR experiences, drive continued development, and integrate robust solutions into product.
- User Interface (UI) Design: Develop visually appealing and intuitive user interfaces that provide an exceptional user experience, using Swift or Objective-C and leveraging iOS frameworks such as UIKit, ARKit, etc.
- Model Deployment and Integration: Work closely with the Computer Vision team to deploy AI/ML models and assets into medical devices or head-mounted devices. This may involve optimizing models for real-time performance, ensuring compatibility with the devices hardware and software, and implementing APIs for seamless communication between the AI/ML model/assets and the device.
- Design, architect, and develop maintainable, testable, functional software that meets product and customer requirements.
- Enforce and maintain software coding standards.
- Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
General Responsibilities:
- Lead cooperative efforts with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing and Project Management to ensure project success.
- Lead and support other team members to create or improve procedures, policies, processes, systems, and technology requirements.
- Develop and utilize tools to enhance the company s product/process development or performance
- Mentor and grow technical talent within discipline/function.
- Lead and support complex product development for cross functional teams, influencing multiple technical areas of expertise.
- Hold the team accountable to deliver high quality results with passion, energy and drive to meet business priorities.
- Identify and implement design and process solutions and ensure they are sustained over time.
- Lead code reviews for projects/systems as independent reviewer applying design principals, coding standards and best practices.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: What you will need (strongly desired):
- 12+ years of work experience in mobile development.
- Strong experience in Swift and Objective-C.
- Experience with SwiftUI is a huge plus
- Experience with some of the following technologies:
- UIKit, Core Data, Core Bluetooth, NSURL Session, AVFoundation.
- Experience with ARKit and RealityKit is a huge plus.
- Experience with other AR/XR frameworks such as Unity is a huge plus
- Excellent debugging skills.
- Talent for cleanly architecting UI features.
- Passion for quality and attention to detail.
- Superior ability to identify and resolve complex problems.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work cross-team.
- Inquisitive and highly motivated self-starter.
