The Spotlight UI Engineer

Apple • Cupertino, CA

3d

About The Position

The Spotlight UI team crafts the front door to every Apple device. Come shape how hundreds of millions of people search, discover, and act on information across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS. Collaborate closely with search, design, and platform teams — experience no technical boundaries.

The Spotlight UI team believes that the moment someone reaches for search, they deserve something that feels instant, intelligent, effortless, and personal. We craft the experience that sits between a person and everything on their device — through deep system integration, fluid presentations, and rich interactive previews. We ship to billions of devices. Our codebase spans Swift and Objective-C across multiple platforms, requiring engineers who can navigate both languages fluently and work effectively across the full stack — from UI presentation to system-level integration. We are looking for an experienced engineer who brings craft and rigor in equal measure. Someone who takes ownership of hard problems and communicates clearly with technical and non-technical partners alike. You will help translate between engineering constraints and product goals. You will help set the technical direction for the team.

Requirements

• Dedication to crafting polished, responsive, and reliable user experiences
• Excelled in collaborative, cross-functional environments with both technical and non-technical partners
• Successfully synthesized analysis of complex, multi-platform problems
• SwiftUI interop with UIKit and AppKit
• Deep UIKit and AppKit knowledge
• Proficiency in both Swift and Objective-C
• Prolific at writing clean and testable code

Nice To Haves

• Incremental migration of large Objective-C codebases to Swift
• Swift concurrency in production (async/await, actors, Sendable)
• Performance analysis with Instruments
• IPC mechanisms
• Framework-level development shipping across iOS and macOS

Responsibilities

• Craft the experience that sits between a person and everything on their device
• Ship to billions of devices
• Navigate both Swift and Objective-C languages fluently
• Work effectively across the full stack — from UI presentation to system-level integration
• Take ownership of hard problems
• Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners alike
• Translate between engineering constraints and product goals
• Set the technical direction for the team

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed