Manager, Memory & Symbolication Tools

What can you learn about a suspended or crashed program? That's the mission of the Memory & Symbolication Tools team, building tools for introspecting program state on Apple platforms. Working at the common Darwin OS layers beneath these platforms, the team owns tools like leaks
, heap
, vmmap
, sample
, and symbols
, along with symbolication frameworks and APIs. These are foundational to OS services and profiling tools that report, triage, and fix memory bugs, and they must be efficient, robust, and secure. Symbolication is critical to billions of devices daily, and these tools are used by developers worldwide.

This specific role is for a highly technical manager to lead a small team, working alongside other engineering experts to support new hardware and software optimizations. In addition, you’ll help shape the team’s vision and bring better intelligence and visualization to these tools. It’s a detail‑oriented engineering leader role, where you’ll be authoring and reviewing code on a daily basis.

• Lead a small team innovating and improving Apple’s core memory analysis tools.
• Support symbolication of mission‑critical tools in Apple’s ecosystem.
• Deepen your understanding of virtual memory, heap, and runtime data structures.
• Present your work to developers within Apple and in larger forums like WWDC.
• Investigate the impact of upcoming technologies and features.
• Apply AI, graph theory, and reverse engineering skills to real‑world problems.

• Prior engineering management experience.
• Problem‑solving and debugging skills with lldb, gdb, or other interactive tools.
• Experience using AI technologies in authoring, reviewing, and debugging code.
• History of designing, implementing, or improving development tools.
• Familiarity with reverse engineering, exploit analysis, or fuzzing tools.
• Understanding of macOS internals, Mach‑O binaries, and Mach APIs.
• If possible, we’d love to see an example of your relevant work, such as a personal project or open‑source contribution.

• 5+ years macOS and/or iOS development experience.
• Expertise in Swift and C, C++, or Objective‑C.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Passion for mentoring others and providing clear and actionable feedback.
• Ability to facilitate creative, pragmatic, solution‑focused technical discussions.
• Strong operating systems understanding around process lifecycle and crashes.
• Detail‑oriented coding skill, especially for edge cases and security implications.
• Experience in computer science or a related field commensurate with a 4‑year degree.

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. The base pay range for this role is between $206,200 and $356,400, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Apple employees also have the opportunity to become Apple shareholders through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs.