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# Lead AI-IOS Engineer

- **Company:** Abacus Group
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000 - $270,000
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cursor, Github, Swiftui, Claude Code, AI Coding Agents
- **Published:** October 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://abacusgroupstaffing.com/job/global-unified-communications-engineering-lead-svp-up-to-280k-nyc-hybrid/

## About the Role

* Experience building iOS- native consumer-facing products at scale
 * Experience at a top consumer tech company (e.g., Airbnb, Snap, Uber)
 * Has worked at an early-stage startup or has a founding or MVP-building background

Hard Skills

 * Actively builds and experiments with AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) as a core part of daily workflow
 * Deep expertise in Swift and SwiftUI
 * Proficiency in Python
 * Background at a social or real-time consumer product (Snap, Partiful, Bumble, BeReal, etc.)
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## Description

Our client is looking for a Lead AI-iOS Engineer to own parts of our iOS app and lift the velocity of the whole engineering org, iOS and backend alike. You'll meet and hopefully up-level the technical bar, ship relentlessly, work directly with the founders, and have an outsized hand in steering the product. We build with AI at the center: AI-native development, agentic workflows, a shipping pace that wasn't possible 6 months ago.