Software Development Engineer, Vision Products Software

Apple • Seattle, WA

3d

About The Position

Apple is seeking software engineers to build Apple Intelligence experiences using AI, machine learning, and computer vision. The role spans system software and frameworks through end-user interfaces, creating features intended to enrich users’ lives while maintaining Apple’s focus on privacy, accessibility, and inclusion.

This highly cross-functional position partners with design, algorithms, software, services, privacy, security, performance, and potentially hardware and silicon teams to engineer end-to-end solutions. The engineer will rapidly validate ideas and technologies, then build robust, production-ready systems for a large user base. The role includes writing Swift code, evaluating AI/ML algorithms for on-device integration, measuring and improving quality through evaluations and prompt iteration, collaborating on user experience design, debugging complex cross-device interactions, and shipping high-quality production code. The engineer will also use UX intuition to identify and shape experience opportunities, iterate with design, and define technical requirements.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of software development experience.
• Experience rapidly validating ideas through hands-on prototyping and using results to secure buy-in and investment in larger initiatives.
• Experience owning the engineering side of cross-functional initiatives from kickoff through delivery and representing them to executives.
• Experience translating low-level technical data, such as sensor or pipeline data, into logic and decisions that shape user-facing products.
• Experience serving as the technical owner for specific, technically difficult problems.
• Excellent programming and GenAI coding skills.
• Experience with an application programming language, preferably Swift, Objective-C, or C++.
• Strong understanding of data structures, memory management, and concurrency.
• Comfort using GenAI coding tools.

Nice To Haves

• Experience shipping user-facing features or products to production at scale.
• Experience developing for iOS or macOS and/or using Apple system frameworks.
• Applied ML engineering experience building and shipping features using LLMs and/or ML algorithms.
• Experience with on-device inference, building evaluations and data-driven validation, iterating on prompts and model behavior to improve quality over time, defining requirements, and collaborating with algorithm teams.
• Experience processing sensor data such as image/video, audio, or motion, including computer vision or signal processing.
• Experience developing system software or frameworks, including API definition and performance optimization, particularly for resource-constrained or real-time systems.

Responsibilities

• Build Apple Intelligence features across system software, frameworks, and end-user interfaces.
• Work cross-functionally with design, algorithms, software, services, privacy, security, performance, and hardware or silicon teams to engineer end-to-end solutions.
• Quickly build prototypes to demonstrate the viability of ideas and technologies.
• Build robust, production-ready systems.
• Write Swift code and evaluate AI/ML algorithms for on-device integration.
• Measure and improve feature quality through evaluations and prompt iteration.
• Collaborate on user experience design, identify and shape experience opportunities, and define technical requirements.
• Debug complex cross-device interactions.
• Contribute to shipping high-quality production code.

What This Job Offers

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