Frontend Architect (AI Experiences), Retail and Marcom Engineering

Apple • Sunnyvale, CA

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About The Position

The Frontend Architect will set technical direction for AI across the frontend for Marcom Engineering’s AI Experiences team. The team builds AI-powered tools for Apple’s marketing and creative teams, including AI-assisted copy workflows and AI Optimization, as well as AI foundations that help engineers and AI agents ship on-brand work faster.

The role will define how AI powers tools used by marketing and creative teams, how AI changes engineering practices, and how Apple’s design system supports AI-generated user interfaces. It combines frontend architecture, applied AI, and design systems, with responsibility for shaping strategy, designing systems, and aligning partners across Apple.

Requirements

• 10 years of experience building production web applications, including 3 or more years in a senior or architect role setting frontend direction across teams.
• Expert-level TypeScript and React, including component architecture, server-side rendering such as Next.js, schema-first data such as GraphQL, and performance at scale.
• Experience leading the architecture of a design system, component platform, or shared frontend infrastructure adopted by multiple teams.
• Experience shipping LLM-powered features or AI developer tooling to production, such as agentic workflows, AI-assisted code review, tool use or function calling, and structured outputs.
• Daily hands-on use of AI coding agents such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor, with a clear perspective on their strengths, limitations, and how to review their output.
• Deep knowledge of accessibility, including WCAG 2.1 AA, and how to build it into systems by default.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent professional experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing agent-facing tooling, such as MCP servers, CLIs designed for agents, or packaged agent skills and instructions.
• Experience designing APIs, schemas, or component metadata that models generate against.
• Experience defining evaluation strategies for AI systems, including evals, golden datasets, LLM-as-judge scoring, and regression gates.
• Experience designing how AI agents operate in CI/CD, including AI-assisted code review, automated releases, or agentic feature development with quality gates and human review.
• Understanding of AI security and governance, including least-privilege agent permissions, prompt injection, and privacy-preserving telemetry.
• Familiarity with design tokens, theming, and generative-UI approaches that keep AI-generated interfaces on-brand.
• A record of published architecture decisions, RFCs, or white papers that influenced direction across an organization.
• Experience in large, multi-team enterprise environments, navigating governance, security review, and cross-organizational dependencies.
• Experience working in ambiguous environments and defining strategy as underlying AI capabilities evolve.
• Track record of setting technical direction and building alignment across competing priorities, with excellent written and verbal communication, including presenting architectural trade-offs to engineering and executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for AI across the frontend.
• Define how AI powers tools used by marketing and creative teams.
• Shape how AI changes the way engineers build.
• Make the design system a foundation for AI tools that generate user interfaces.
• Shape strategy and design systems that put the strategy into practice.
• Build alignment with partners across Apple.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior