Apple has posted a new job opening today, looking for a software engineer for Mac OS that will help develop a “revolutionary new feature” in Mac OS X 10.7.
Are you looking to help create something totally new? Something that has never been done before and will truly amaze everyone? Are you excited by the prospect that what you helped create would be used every day by millions of Apple customers? Then come and work on with the Mac OS X software engineering team to help build a new and revolutionary feature for Mac OS X.
We are looking for a senior software engineer to help us create a revolutionary new feature in the very foundations of Mac OS X. We have something truly revolutionary and really exciting in progress and it is going to require your most creative and focused efforts ever.
An ideal candidate will have a degree in Computer Science (or equivalent), five years of professional experience developing C / C++ / Objective-C libraries or frameworks for use on end user systems, experience with developing for Internet technologies and services, and a passion for doing “really hard” things that have never been done before.
An exceptional candidate will also have up close and personal experience with the HTTP protocol as well as other protocols layered atop it, have participated in or lead the architecture of large web scale systems, have shipped multiple “platforms” for use by millions of users.
It is clear that Apple was very careful when writing the description of the job opening to not give away any details, but the description does seem very enthusiastic, something not usually found in Apple job descriptions.
The only hint that we can get from the job description comes in the qualifications, where Apple states they are looking for someone with knowledge of HTTP and related protocols, suggesting something to do with the Internet.
There have not been too many rumors regarding Mac OS X 10.7, except some references of it found earlier this year. There have been claims that Apple had dropped fast development of Mac OS X 10.7 to focus mainly on iOS 4 development.
