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# UX Software Engineer - Special Projects

- **Company:** Apple Inc.
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $150,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Apple IOS, Applications Architecture, Machine Learning, Performance Tuning, Software Engineering, Ios Frameworks, Information Technology
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.themuse.com/jobs/apple/ux-software-engineer-special-projects

## About the Role

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

## 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., Designing and building iOS-based software that re-imagines and creates new Apple experiences using AI

Prototyping rapidly to explore what works - then making it real

Partnering closely with Design, Machine Learning, and other teams to shape features, not just implement specs

Contributing to architecture decisions, absorbing how senior engineers think, and growing your technical voice

Investing in the quality and reliability of what you ship - through testing, tooling, and infrastructure that gives the team confidence

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


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