Lead Software Engineer - Apple

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.

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.

Requirements

• 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.

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.

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.