Senior Software Engineer - Maps Navigation Experience
Apple
Software Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA · New York, USA · San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA · Multiple locations
USD 147,400-272,100 / year + Equity
Posted on Dec 16, 2025
Join Apple and be part of a community where innovation thrives, creativity flourishes, and diverse perspectives are celebrated. At Apple Maps, specifically within the Navigation Experience team, we're not just enhancing navigation—we're revolutionizing how it integrates seamlessly into people's lives. Picture your work influencing smarter, more personalized, and intuitive experiences for billions of users around the globe. As a Software Engineer on this team, you’ll play a critical role in shaping how people embark on and experience their journeys. Your contributions will help reimagine navigation guidance, making it more human-centric, intelligent, and tailored to individual needs. You’ll collaborate with passionate innovators, tackle complex technical challenges, and develop technologies that guide and inspire users every day. If you’re passionate about creating impactful, user-centered experiences and eager to scale your work globally, this is your chance to make a meaningful difference.
The team is responsible for the end-to-end navigation experience across driving, cycling, walking, transit, and hiking. As part of this team, you will help build new features while continuously evolving and maintaining the core systems that billions of customers rely on every day. Our mission is to transform navigation into an experience that feels natural, intuitive, and personalized; tailored to their unique preferences and interests, while guiding them safely and efficiently to their destinations. This work is highly cross-functional: you will collaborate with multiple partners within and outside of Maps to deliver seamless, integrated navigation experiences. We have a modern development process, analyzing our initial algorithms, implementing and experimenting as we go, adjusting and optimizing our solutions to ultimately provide the best navigation experience. We support a production system and as such, support outside of standard business hours may occasionally be required to assist with various team and system needs such as pager-support for periodic 24/7 on-call duties, video calls and other project requirements.
- Design, develop, and maintain navigation features and services in Apple Maps.
- Ability to empathize with the customer and to appreciate what makes for excellent customer experience.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners including design, product, and other engineering teams to deliver seamless customer experiences.
- Prioritize tasks effectively to maintain project timelines and ensure structured progression of development goals.
- Influencing the future product direction for our features.
- Participating in design and code reviews.
- Master’s or PhD in computer science, mathematics, or related field.
- Ability to write complex, highly-performant, and reliable solutions, preferably in C++.
- Solid understanding of algorithms and data structures.
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
- Experience with using AI/ML to personalize customer experiences that feel unique to each individual.
- Strong problem-solving skills and comfort working with ambiguity and evolving requirements.
- Ability to collaborate effectively in a multi-functional team environment.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills, possessing the ability to work both independently and in a distributed team environment.
- Familiarity with navigation use cases across different modalities (driving, transit, walking, cycling, hiking).
- Knowledge of AI/ML techniques applied in navigation or geospatial context.
- Experience building customer-facing applications at scale.
- Experience in writing Python tools.
- Experience with macOS or Linux.
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