Lead Software Engineer - Apple

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POSITION TITLE
Lead Engineer, Apple

LOCATION
In Office (San Francisco, Burbank, or New York)

ABOUT THE ROLE

Paramount Streaming is seeking a Lead Engineer, Apple to join the AI Engagement Engine team as a senior individual contributor. This role will focus on building high-performance, user-facing features that power content discovery and personalization across Paramount+ and Pluto TV applications on iOS and tvOS.

The successful candidate will work cross-functionally with backend, machine learning, data, and platform teams to deliver scalable and seamless user experiences. This engineer will own complex technical initiatives end-to-end, contribute to the architecture of Apple applications, and partner with technical leadership to establish engineering best practices.

AI-assisted development is a core expectation for this role. Candidates should demonstrate daily use of AI coding tools, experience evaluating AI-generated code, and familiarity with LLM- and ML-powered product experiences such as recommendations, search, personalization, and conversational interfaces.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute to architectural decisions, frameworks, and tooling for iOS and tvOS applications.
• Design, develop, test, debug, and deploy native Apple platform applications.
• Drive application performance, reliability, accessibility, and scalability.
• Utilize AI coding assistants such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent as part of daily development workflows.
• Collaborate on ML- and LLM-driven product features including recommendations, search, ranking, and content understanding.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data, Backend, and Client Engineering teams to deliver features.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and proactively identify risks and dependencies.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Expert-level Swift development experience.
• Deep knowledge of iOS, tvOS, and Xcode.
• Strong understanding of memory management, concurrency, animations, and performance optimization.
• Experience integrating RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Strong architectural and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with A/B testing, feature flagging, and client-side experimentation frameworks.
• Experience integrating advertising technologies into Apple applications.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and mentoring abilities.

AI LITERACY

• Daily hands-on use of AI coding assistants.
• Experience with prompt engineering and evaluating AI-generated code.
• Working knowledge of LLMs, embeddings, retrieval systems, and AI application design considerations.
• Experience building or prototyping AI-powered product features.
• Understanding of responsible AI practices, including privacy, attribution, and review processes.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of Apple platform development experience.
• Significant contribution to at least one publicly released iPhone application.
• Demonstrated use of AI coding tools in day-to-day engineering work.
• Experience working in Agile development environments.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience integrating video and rich media into mobile applications.
• Experience building personalized, data-driven, or server-driven user experiences.
• Experience shipping ML- or LLM-powered mobile features.
• Experience in entertainment, media, sports, gaming, or news industries.

BONUS SKILLS

• Continuous integration and automated testing.
• Streaming video technologies and DRM.
• Localization tools and practices.
• Swift Package Manager.
• Experience evaluating AI model quality, latency, and cost trade-offs.

#L1-VA1

Paramount+, a direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service from Paramount Global, combines live sports, breaking news, and a mountain of entertainment. The premium streaming service features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel. The service is also the streaming home to unmatched sports programming, including every CBS Sports event, from golf to football to basketball and more, plus exclusive streaming rights for major sports properties, including some of the world’s biggest and most popular soccer leagues. Paramount+ also enables subscribers to stream local CBS stations live across the U.S. in addition to the ability to stream Paramount Streaming’s other live channels: CBSN for 24/7 news, CBS Sports HQ for sports news and analysis, and ET Live for entertainment coverage.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Hiring Salary Range: $164,640.00 - 246,960.00. 

The hiring salary range for this position applies to New York, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education.  The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable,  as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement. This position is bonus eligible.  

• Attractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages. Check out our full list of benefits here:https://www.paramount.com/careers/benefits
• Generous paid time off.
• An exciting and fulfilling opportunity to be part of one of Paramount’s most dynamic teams.
• Opportunities for both on-site and virtual engagement events.
• Unique opportunities to make meaningful connections and build a vibrant community, both inside and outside the workplace.
• Explore life at Paramount: https://www.paramount.com/careers/life-at-paramount

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

At Paramount, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on-screen and off. From the programming and movies we create to employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all. Paramount is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran status.

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