iOS Engineer

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$142,300–$263,300 / yr
Posted
23 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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This role $203k
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This role pays less than 66% of similar roles. Most pay $202,800–$241,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $203k versus about $222k for comparable roles.

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About Apple Inc

Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

Apple Inc currently has 1984 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · iOS Engineer

As an iOS Engineer - Creator Studio, you will join the Creator Studio team to design and build features that integrate agentic intelligence into professional creative applications. You will be responsible for developing the harness, tooling, and capabilities that translate user intent into action while balancing rapid prototyping with production-ready quality. Your daily work involves collaborating with human interface designers, machine learning engineers, and creative-domain experts to shape how humans and machines team together in creative workflows. The role requires proficiency in Swift or Objective-C, experience with Apple platforms, and a strong product sense regarding creative tools like DAWs, NLEs, or image editors. You will solve the technical challenge of turning frontier AI capabilities into reliable features that enhance professional creativity while ensuring high-quality code across the application stack.

What you'll do

  • Design and build agentic intelligence capabilities, including tools and harnesses, for Apple's creative applications.
  • Translate frontier AI capabilities into functional product features that support user intent and creativity.
  • Balance rapid prototyping of new experiences with the development of production-ready software.
  • Integrate LLMs and build agent harnesses to facilitate human-machine teaming.
  • Develop reliable, maintainable, and well-tested code using Swift or Objective-C across the app stack.
  • Define quality standards for software in an evolving landscape of AI-assisted creative workflows.
  • Collaborate with designers, ML engineers, and domain experts to shape product experience and capability.

What we're looking for

  • 2+ years of experience developing and shipping production-quality code or equivalent demonstrated experience.
  • Proficiency in a modern programming language such as Swift, Objective-C, or similar.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent depth through professional experience.
  • Strong product sense and curiosity about creative workflows.
  • Ability to work effectively in fast-paced environments and communicate clearly across disciplines.
  • Experience as a professional or power user of creative tools like DAWs, NLEs, image editors, or design suites (preferred).
  • Background blending technical skill with creative-domain expertise (preferred).
  • Hands-on experience integrating LLMs, building agent harnesses, or working with Swift and Apple platforms (preferred).

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