Mobile iOS Engineer

Hark; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Hark in San Jose is seeking an iOS Engineer to build and optimize the Hark iOS app, integrating advanced AI capabilities. In this role, you'll work closely with designers to create intuitive user experiences and will have ownership over the app's architecture and performance. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience in iOS engineering and expertise in Swift, UIKit, and SwiftUI.

This full-time position offers a competitive salary range of $180,000 - $450,000 annually, depending on experience and qualifications.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of iOS engineering experience.
• Proven ability to build high-performance, responsive applications.
• Experience optimizing for latency and real-time interactions.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the Hark iOS app architecture and performance.
• Ship features that integrate real-time AI capabilities.
• Collaborate with designers for fast and polished interfaces.

Skills

Swift expertise

UIKit experience

SwiftUI knowledge

iOS system design understanding

High-performance mobile apps

Attention to detail

Real-time interactions experience

Job description

About Hark

Hark is an artificial intelligence company building advanced, personalized intelligence. One that is proactive, multimodal, and capable of interacting with the world through speech, text, vision, and persistent memory.

We’re pairing that intelligence with next‑generation hardware to create a universal interface between humans and machines. While today’s AI largely operates through chat boxes and decade‑old devices, Hark is focused on what comes next: agentic systems that interact naturally with people and the real world.

To get there, we’re developing multimodal models and next‑generation AI hardware together – designed from the ground up as a single, unified interface for a new era of intelligent systems.

About the Role

You’ll build the iOS experience for Hark: a native app that brings a real‑time, multimodal AI agent into people’s pockets.

That means shipping an app that feels instant, handles streaming AI responses gracefully, and integrates voice, text, and vision into a single coherent experience. The bar is high: this is the primary way millions of people will interact with Hark.

This is a high‑ownership role on a small team. You’ll work directly with designers, platform engineers, and the people building the models. What you ship will define how Hark feels in someone’s hand.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the Hark iOS app. Architecture, UI, performance, and the end‑to‑end experience.
• Ship features that integrate real‑time AI capabilities: streaming responses, voice input, tool invocations, and multimodal interactions.
• Work closely with designers to craft interfaces that feel fast, polished, and trustworthy. Sweat the details.
• Optimize for performance at every layer: startup time, animation smoothness, memory efficiency, and network latency.
• Own components end‑to‑end, from design and implementation through testing, launch, and iteration.
• Collaborate with platform and backend engineers on APIs, data contracts, and integration with the agent runtime.
• Instrument what you ship. Track performance, catch regressions, and improve based on real‑world usage.

Requirements

• Strong expertise in Swift, with deep knowledge of UIKit and SwiftUI, and a solid understanding of iOS system design.
• Proven ability to build high-performance, responsive mobile applications, with experience optimizing for latency, memory, and real‑time interactions.
• Experience designing and shipping intuitive, high-quality user experiences, with strong attention to detail and product craft.
• Familiarity with concurrency patterns (async/await, Combine) for building real‑time, interactive applications.
• Experience integrating with backend systems and AI‑powered services (REST, streaming APIs), ensuring smooth and reliable data flow.
• Demonstrated ability to own features end‑to‑end, from initial concept and architecture through implementation and deployment.
• 5+ years of iOS engineering experience.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience building or contributing to AI‑powered or agent‑driven applications, especially involving voice, multimodal input, or real‑time interaction.
• Strong product intuition, with the ability to translate emerging AI capabilities into user‑facing experiences that feel natural and useful.
• Experience working in early‑stage or 0‑to‑1 environments, with a track record of shipping quickly and iterating based on user feedback.
• Familiarity with the Apple ecosystem, including frameworks such as AVFoundation, Core ML, or real‑time media processing.
• Comfortable working across the stack or collaborating closely with backend and AI teams to deliver end‑to‑end features.
• High bar for engineering craft, with a track record of building polished, performant, and reliable mobile products.

Compensation

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $180,000 - $450,000 annually.

The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include additional components and benefits depending on the specific role. This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.