Senior Technical Artist Engineer - Real-Time Graphics

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Stock programs

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Artist Engineer to join a team of motion designers, technical artists, and engineers crafting future experiences for Apple platforms. You will bring visuals and interactions to life while exploring new ideas, building real-time systems in Metal and VFX, and supporting design teams with tools and plugins.

The role emphasizes collaboration with design teams, shader development, and building polished visual experiences across Apple products and services.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with Metal or similar graphics tech, writing shaders for visual effects, custom filters, and real-time 3D graphics.
• Experience authoring particle systems, simulations, or other procedural/generative visuals.
• Understanding of the GPU pipeline, shader performance optimization, and platform constraints.
• Experience building custom controls, transitions, and gesture-driven animation, integrating GPU-rendered content into a live view hierarchy.
• Proficiency with Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit.
• Ability to work closely with designers and iterate quickly on ideas.
• Strong programming skills and a passion for learning new technologies.

Responsibilities

• Build real-time visual systems in Metal & VFX for Apple platforms.
• Write and optimize shaders that maintain frame rate on device.
• Build custom controls, transitions, and gesture-driven animation.
• Create tools and plugins needed by the design team.

Skills

Metal

Shaders

Particle Systems

GPU Pipeline

Custom UI Animations

Swift/SwiftUI/UIKit

Collaboration

Tools

Cinema 4D

Maya

Houdini

RealityKit

SceneKit

ARKit

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Artist Engineer to join a team of motion designers, technical artists, and engineers crafting future experiences for Apple platforms. You will bring visuals and interactions to life while exploring new ideas, building real-time systems in Metal and VFX, and supporting design teams with tools and plugins.

The role emphasizes collaboration with design teams, shader development, and building polished visual experiences across Apple products and services.