Sr Software Engineer (Swift UI), Employee Experience & Productivity

Apple Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Austin, Texas is seeking a Sr Software Engineer (Swift UI) to help shape native applications for Apple employees across macOS, iOS, and iPadOS.

You will collaborate with a small team to define multi-year platform direction and establish engineering practices that raise quality and reliability. You will mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and champion AI integration and platform interoperability.

Qualifications

• Expertise in Swift, SwiftUI, and Apple-platform architecture across macOS, iOS, and iPadOS.
• Ability to define and drive technical strategy across multiple application domains.
• Proven track record of mentoring engineers and raising technical quality.
• BS or MS in CS, software engineering, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical strategy and multi-year architecture roadmap for EEE's native application platform.
• Lead the design and delivery of high-quality, cross-platform applications that serve Apple employees globally.
• Identify systemic engineering challenges and drive team-wide improvements in quality, reliability, accessibility, and developer productivity.
• Shape how AI and platform interoperability are leveraged across the application portfolio — establishing patterns and best practices.
• Serve as a technical authority in cross-functional design reviews, architecture forums, and strategic planning.
• Mentor and develop engineers at all levels; accelerate their growth and broaden their technical impact.
• Champion engineering excellence, accessibility, and inclusive design across the team's work.

Skills

Swift

SwiftUI

Apple-platform architecture

Mentoring engineers

Engineering leadership

Education

BS/MS in CS or Software Engineering

Tools

Core ML

Foundation Models

MLX

App Intents

Job description

Sr Software Engineer (Swift UI), Employee Experience & Productivity

Austin, Texas, United States Software and Services

Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It’s Apple’s central nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here.Employee Experience and Productivity (EEP) is part of IS&T and delivers some of the most widely used communication and productivity technology and services across Apple — from tools that enable collaboration to the support teams that keep Apple's workforce running. EEP also leads user experience design and research, and manages the systems behind Apple's original content studios. Within this team is Employee Engagement & Engineering, a small, global team that quickly delivers with long-term vision, building durable, reliable systems meant to last. Our focus is on crafting high-quality, user-centred experiences — delivering AI and system interoperability to make every interaction intuitive, seamless, and genuinely useful for the people who rely on our tools.

Description

You collaborate with a small team on the technical strategy for how native applications are imagined, built, integrated, and evolved across our platforms. You shape multi-year direction for the team's platform architecture, establish engineering practices that raise the quality bar, and lead the resolution of the most complex challenges — those that span multiple systems and carry broad impact on the employee experience.You collaborate directly with leadership, and represent the team in cross-functional technical forums. You are expected to grow the next generation of engineers through mentorship, well crafted code, and technical leadership by example. Your influence defines how the platform evolves and how applications are experienced by thousands of Apple employees worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical strategy and multi-year architecture roadmap for EEE's native application platform
• Lead the design and delivery of the team's most critical systems — high-quality, cross-platform applications that serve Apple employees globally
• Identify systemic engineering challenges and drive team-wide improvements in quality, reliability, accessibility, and developer productivity
• Shape how AI and platform interoperability are leveraged across the application portfolio — establishing patterns and best practices
• Serve as a technical authority in cross-functional design reviews, architecture forums, and strategic planning
• Mentor and develop engineers at all levels; accelerate their growth and broaden their technical impact
• Champion engineering excellence, accessibility, and inclusive design across the team's work
• Drive adoption of emerging Apple platform capabilities and AI technologies across the team's applications
• Engage with leadership to communicate technical vision, manage risk, and shape investment priorities
• Lead hiring efforts for engineering roles; define criteria and calibrate the technical bar

Minimum Qualifications

• Exceptional depth in Swift, SwiftUI, and Apple-platform architecture across macOS, iOS, and iPadOS
• Demonstrated ability to define and drive technical strategy across multiple application domains
• Proven track record of mentoring engineers and raising the technical quality of a team
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI integration patterns and platform interoperability at an architectural level
• Deep understanding of user experience quality — you set the bar for how applications should feel
• Experience defining platform architecture for native applications serving large internal or external user bases
• History of driving technical innovation with broad adoption across a team or organisation
• Experience shaping engineering culture around quality, inclusion, and technical growthDeep familiarity with Apple's AI frameworks (Core ML, Foundation Models, MLX) and system integration capabilities (App Intents, extensions)
• Record of successful cross-functional influence at a senior level
• Experience with globally distributed teams and asynchronous collaboration at scale

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