iOS Engineer: Build Agentic AI for Creative Apps

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cary, North Carolina seeks a Software Engineer to design and ship agentic intelligence features for our professional creative applications. You will turn frontier AI capabilities into usable in-app tools that align with creators' vision and workflows.

The role partners with designers, ML engineers, and product teams to shape capability and experience, writing production‑quality Swift/Obj-C code and delivering reliable software in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years developing and shipping production-quality code, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Proficiency in a modern programming language (Swift, Objective-C, or similar) and a willingness to work across the app stack.
• A strong product sense and curiosity about creative workflows.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and to communicate clearly across disciplines.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent depth through professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the capabilities that bring agentic assistance to Apple's creative applications: the harness, tooling, and skills that help users translate intent and curiosity into action and insight.
• Balance rapid prototyping of new user experiences with maturing ideas into production-ready capability. Iterate from a rough demo to reliable shipping quality.
• Partner with designers, ML engineers, the teams behind our creative apps, and creative-domain experts to shape both the capability and the experience.
• Help establish and define what it means to develop quality software in an evolving landscape of human/machine teaming.

Skills

Swift

Objective-C

Product sense

Communication

Fast-paced

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cary, North Carolina seeks a Software Engineer to design and ship agentic intelligence features for our professional creative applications. You will turn frontier AI capabilities into usable in-app tools that align with creators' vision and workflows.

The role partners with designers, ML engineers, and product teams to shape capability and experience, writing production‑quality Swift/Obj-C code and delivering reliable software in a fast-paced environment.