Apple
Cartographic Designer, Apple Maps
$185K–$278K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- Professional experience designing for digital, interactive map products; no number of years stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in design, cartography, geography, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Design cartographic systems and 3D map experiences for Apple Maps, building prototypes and tools and collaborating with engineering to bring designs into production.
What you'll do
- Create graphic systems and 3D representations of cities, buildings, and landscapes across map scales.
- Build interactive prototypes and tools, including agentic workflows, to evaluate and accelerate map design.
- Present design work and partner with engineering to develop production-ready experiences.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in design, cartography, geography, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Professional experience designing for digital, interactive map products.
- Experience designing graphic systems using colour and typography for complex visual products.
- Experience working with geo-spatial and map data, and modelling, rendering, and animating 3D environments.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with raster and vector data formats or experience with procedural modeling pipelines.
- Experience building interactive prototypes with real data and code, team workflow tools, or agentic/AI-assisted workflows.
Pay
$184,700 and $277,600 (base salary range, USD)
Tools
raster, vector, real data, code
AI focus
Develop agentic workflows that expand design and technical capabilities and apply emerging technology to support and accelerate design work.
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