iOS Engineer: Build Agentic AI for Creative Apps

Apple Inc.

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+

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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.