Software Engineer — Creator Studio AI Tools

Apple Inc.; Cary (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cary, North Carolina is seeking a Software Engineer to help design and build features that bring agentic intelligence to our creative applications.

You will turn frontier AI capabilities into real product experiences that empower creators while keeping vision front and center. You will collaborate with designers, ML engineers, and engineering teams across Apple’s creative apps to shape capability and the user experience, balancing rapid prototyping with production-ready

Qualifications

• 2+ years developing and shipping production-quality code.
• Proficiency in a modern programming language (Swift, Objective-C).
• Strong product sense and curiosity about creative workflows.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and communicate across disciplines.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent depth.

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

Production-quality code

Swift/Objective-C

Product sense

Cross-disciplinary communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cary, North Carolina is seeking a Software Engineer to help design and build features that bring agentic intelligence to our creative applications.

You will turn frontier AI capabilities into real product experiences that empower creators while keeping vision front and center. You will collaborate with designers, ML engineers, and engineering teams across Apple’s creative apps to shape capability and the user experience, balancing rapid prototyping with production-ready