Senior Swift Software Engineer - Agentic OS Experiences
Apple · Cupertino, California, United States
Computers and Electronics Manufacturing · 10,001+ employees
About the role
You will work in a collaborative team to develop AI features from early prototypes to final products on Apple devices. This role involves significant autonomy in building 0-to-1 software solutions and shaping technical direction.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have at least 5 years of mobile or application development experience and strong computer science fundamentals. A bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience is required, along with proficiency in Swift and iOS/macOS development.
Full description
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.
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.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ 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 ramp quickly here
- You've shipped software that people relied on, and you learned something from every hard call along the way
- You're someone who unblocks yourself. When the path isn't clear, you figure it out — whether that means reading the source, building a prototype, or pulling in the right people
- Comfortable with ambiguity and excited by problems that don't have an obvious answer yet
- You work well across teams and build trust with partners in design and engineering
- You make the people around you better — through mentoring, shaping technical direction, and the way you approach hard problems
- You've already brought AI into how you write code — and you're always looking for the next way to use it
- B.S. Computer Science or equivalent experience required
Preferred Qualifications
- Deep experience in one or more iOS/macOS domains: system services, UI frameworks, concurrent application architecture, or performance optimization
- You've wired together LLM-powered systems yourself — agents, tool orchestration, prompt engineering — and you have opinions about what worked and what didn't
- Close to the frontier. You're the person your team comes to when a new model drops or a new technique emerges
- A sharp eye for detail. You notice what's off and you know when it's right
- A point of view on where human-AI interaction is headed — and the instinct to know what it should feel like when it gets there
