Software Engineer - Generative UI, Input Experience

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Discounted products and services

Educational expenses reimbursement

Relocation support

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer - Generative UI, Input Experience in Cupertino, CA. You will own the UI layer for generated interfaces and build the views, layouts, and APIs that models rely on in real time.

You will work closely with Apple's design studio to craft principled, well-named APIs and components, iterate with designers from exploration to pixel-perfect results, and collaborate with design, AI, and UI framework teams across Apple.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Expert-level SwiftUI, including custom Layout and preferences.
• Designed and shipped a reusable view or component API.
• A portfolio, shipped work, or prototypes showing strong visual craft, typography and layout.
• Comfortable working directly with designers from exploration to pixel-exact results.

Responsibilities

• Own the UI layer for generative interfaces and real-time model generation.
• Develop views, layouts, and APIs that support generated interfaces.
• Prototype with designers and iteratively refine APIs for clarity and correctness.
• Collaborate with design, AI, and UI framework teams across Apple.

Skills

SwiftUI

Layout

API design

Reusable components

Visual craft

Designer collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Software Engineer - Generative UI, Input Experience

Cupertino, California, United States Software and Services

A generated interface is only as good as the pieces it's made from. Give a model the wrong pieces and it fails, producing something generic or broken. Give it the right ones and it can make something a designer would be proud of. We're looking for an engineer with a designer's eye to build those pieces: the views, layouts, and APIs that generated interfaces are built from. The goal is to make the right result the easy one to write, for people and models.

You'll join a small, newly formed team working closely with Apple's design studio, and you'll own the UI layer that generative interfaces are built on. Your APIs will have two kinds of users: engineers, and the models generating interfaces in real time. Most of the work is finding the right abstraction. Which layout decisions should a view make by itself? Which should be stated as intent? Which should never be exposed at all? An API that answers those questions well lets a model write a few lines and get something that feels native. The hard cases are the ones designers usually solve by hand: tight space, many sizes, content whose length and shape aren't known until it arrives. You'll build components that handle them without anyone drawing each one. With designers, you'll prototype quickly until something feels right, then turn it into a principled, well-named API with a small surface. With the generation side, you'll study how models use your APIs and change them until good results are the default. Along the way you'll partner with design, AI, and UI framework teams across Apple.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Expert-level SwiftUI, including custom Layout and preferences, with a deep understanding of its layout model
• Designed and shipped a reusable view or component API that other engineers adopted
• A portfolio, shipped work, or prototypes that show strong visual craft, especially typography and layout
• Comfortable working directly with designers, from early ambiguous exploration through to a pixel-exact result

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building adaptive layouts that stay correct with content that isn't known ahead of time
• Deep knowledge of Dynamic Type, accessibility, localization, and right-to-left layout
• Experience building or maintaining a design system or component library used across many product teams
• Experience designing APIs or schemas that a model generates against

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $184,700 and $324,800, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

You’ll also receive benefits including:

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• retirement benefits
• a range of discounted products and free services
• reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
• discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation

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