Senior Software Engineer - AI Experiences
Apple
Software Engineering, Data Science
Cupertino, CA, USA
USD 181,100-318,400 / year + Equity
Posted on Apr 25, 2026
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.
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. What the day-to-day looks like:
- The work spans two surfaces — you might lean into one or bridge both:
- Crafting iOS experiences that rethink what Apple software can do with AI
- Designing agentic systems that manage context and orchestrate tools under the hood
- Prototyping rapidly to explore what works — then making it real
- Partnering with Design, ML, and AI researchers to shape features and translate cutting-edge models into tangible experiences — not just implement specs
- Driving architecture decisions and raising the quality bar through technical leadership
- Investing in the quality and reliability of what you ship — through testing, tooling, and infrastructure that gives the team confidence
- 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
- 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
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