UX Software Engineer - Special Projects

Apple Inc.
Santa Clara, CA, United States
29 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
3 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Apple IOS Applications Architecture Performance Tuning Software Engineering Ios Frameworks Information Technology

Job description

You’ll work alongside a tight group of engineers, designers, and researchers to bring AI features from early prototype to product. This is 0-to-1 work - from a rough idea on a whiteboard to software running on real devices. You’ll have a lot of autonomy in how you get there. You’ll grow here. The work is hard enough to demand it and the team is generous enough to support it.

Requirements

  • BS Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years of mobile or application development experience, strong CS fundamentals, iOS and Swift experience is a plus - but if you’re strong in another platform, you’ll pick it up here.
  • You’ve shipped software that people used - and you’re ready to own bigger pieces end-to-end
  • You’ve built something from scratch - a side project, hackathon, or an app you shipped on your own. You know what it takes to go from zero to something real
  • You figure things out. When you’re stuck, you dig in - reading the source, building a prototype, or asking the right questions
  • Comfortable with ambiguity - you may not have all the answers yet, but you know how to find them
  • You work well with others and communicate clearly across teams
  • You’re curious about AI tools and you are already experimenting with how they change the way you write code

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience developing software for human-AI interaction
  • Experience in one or more iOS/macOS domains: system services, UI frameworks, concurrent application architecture, or performance optimization
  • You seek out feedback and learn fast from the people around you
  • Close to the frontier. You’re the person your friends come to when a new model drops or a new technique emerges
  • A point of view on where human-AI interaction is headed - and the drive to be part of building it

About the company

We’re a small team at Apple betting on what comes next. We believe AI will fundamentally change how people interact with their devices - and we’re looking for software engineers who want to build that future.

We can’t say much about what we’re building for our customers. What we can say: the problems are genuinely new and the potential reach is enormous.

Beyond the work, we’re a collaborative, humble, and curious group that loves learning from each other and building together.

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