Apple
Senior iOS App Development Engineer - Services Special Project
$185K–$325K
Cupertino, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Nov 1, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of software engineering experience on client-side or platform-level iOS systems.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
About the job
Builds on-device frameworks, daemons, and infrastructure that power Generative AI experiences across Apple services and platforms.
What you'll do
- Design and implement frameworks, daemons, system services, and XPC communication layers.
- Build CloudKit synchronization, REST integrations, and metrics and telemetry infrastructure.
- Guide architecture and code reviews, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 6+ years of software engineering experience on client-side or platform-level iOS systems.
- Strong proficiency in Swift and Objective-C, with production experience building frameworks, daemons, or system APIs.
- Systems programming expertise, experience with RESTful APIs and cloud services, and proficiency with Xcode, LLDB, Instruments, and Git.
Nice to have
- Experience with CloudKit or similar synchronization technologies, and with libraries, frameworks, or APIs.
- Experience with performance optimization, metrics and telemetry, AI/ML or large language models, SQL, debugging across the OS stack, or mentoring.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 USD base pay
Tools
Swift, Objective-C, XPC, CloudKit, REST, Xcode, LLDB, Instruments
AI focus
Develops on-device systems and infrastructure that enable Generative AI experiences; AI/ML or large language model experience is preferred.
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