Senior iOS Engineer Creativity Apps

At Apple we believe that groundbreaking ideas flourish when exceptional engineering meets innovative vision. Were building the future of creative expression aand we need senior engineers who are passionate about crafting elegant high-performance applications that empower users to bring their most ambitious ideas to Creativity Apps team needs your help shaping the next generation of creative editing tools. Youll work on foundational technologies and user experiences that power applications used by millions of artists designers musicians and innovators worldwide. This is a unique opportunity to apply your deep technical expertise to solve complex problems at scale defining how people interact with powerful creative tools on Apple devices. Youll contribute to the legacy of world-class creative applications like Final Cut Pro Logic Pro GarageBand Pixelmator and care more about how you think than which platform youve been thinking on. If youre a senior engineer from a graphics systems media or ML background who is excited to go deep on Apple platforms and youre the kind of person who obsesses over how a feature feels not just whether it ships we want to talk to you.

As a Senior Software Engineer on our team you will drive the architectural design implementation and evolution of core features for our next-generation creative applications. Were looking for a problem-solver who excels in a dynamic environment capable of both deep technical execution and strategic thinking across complex systems. You should be excited by the prospect of rapidly prototyping innovative concepts while simultaneously establishing robust forward-looking architectural role is for you if you thrive in a dynamic environment and are equally comfortable with deep technical execution and strategic thinking. You have an instinct for the nuances of photography and the challenges faced by visual creators. You are not just writing code; you are shaping the future of how people capture edit and share their most cherished visual memories.

Product-Minded Feature Ownership: Owning features end to end; from a rough idea through prototypes you put in front of real users to a shipped experience youre proud of. Youll form your own opinions about what the product should do and defend them with taste data and working Architectural Leadership: Defining and evolving the technical architecture for complex imaging workflows ensuring scalability performance and future Learning Integration: Bringing ML capabilities into the product as first-class features; integrating on-device models into demanding pipelines reasoning about accuracy latency and memory trade-offs and designing interfaces that stay predictable and trustworthy when the underlying model u0026 Efficiency Optimization: Meticulously optimizing performance resource utilization and responsiveness across demanding workflows so the experience stays fluid and delightful even with large assets and intensive -Functional Collaboration: Partnering closely with design product management domain experts ML researchers and other engineering teams much of the interesting work on this team happens at the seams between groups and youll be comfortable operating Effectively with AI Tools: Using modern AI developer tools fluently to move faster exploring unfamiliar code prototyping generating tests reviewing changes with the judgment to know where they earn their keep and where they dont. We expect the whole team to keep raising the bar on how we build and we want your ideas on Mentorship u0026 Growth: Guiding and mentoring talented engineers fostering strong development practices and contributing to the growth and culture of the team.

6 years of professional experience building and shipping production softwarenDemonstrated mastery of software architecture patterns data structures and algorithms especially in high-performance contextsnDeep proficiency in at least one modern systems or application language (Swift C Rust Objective-C Kotlin Java or similar) and a track record of picking up new platforms and languages quicklynStrong product sense: a history of shipping features where you owned the user experience not just the implementationnTrack record of effective cross-functional collaboration with design product and partner engineering teams

Experience with Apples core frameworks UIKit SwiftUI Core Animation AVFoundation Core Image and Metal (or equivalent graphics frameworks on other platforms)nnExperience integrating machine learning into shipping products on-device inference model performance and memory trade-offs or building product experiences around probabilistic model outputnnFluency with AI-assisted development tools and an interest in helping the team use them wellnnExtensive experience identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in client applications with a focus on UI responsiveness memory management power efficiency and real-time processingnnExperience developing applications that involve complex media manipulation rendering or content creation workflows for professionals or enthusiasts (e.g. video editing music production graphic design or advanced image processing)nnDemonstrated ability to technically lead projects mentor engineers and drive cross-functional initiatives from concept to delivery in a fast-paced environment