Apple
Senior Software Engineer, Computer Use & Automation
$150K–$278K
Cupertino, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 10, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional experience.
- Education
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
About the job
Build and ship automation, computer-use, and agentic testing APIs and tools across Apple platforms.
What you'll do
- Design, refine, and ship automation and computer-use APIs across Apple platforms.
- Harden and optimize UI inspection, interaction, and IPC code for reliability and performance.
- Define standards for agentic testing tools and collaborate across Apple to develop next-generation tools.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional experience building frameworks, systems, or other performance-sensitive software.
- Experience with native platform languages such as Swift, Objective-C, or C++.
- Experience profiling, debugging, and optimizing native code, and shipping and evolving APIs with strong compatibility guarantees.
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Experience implementing native testing or UI frameworks.
- Experience with agentic development or evaluating agentic tools/workflows; concurrency, IPC, or multi-process debugging; or large teams and codebases.
Pay
$150,400 and $277,600 USD base salary
Tools
Swift, Objective-C, C++, IPC
AI focus
Develop automation and computer-use APIs and next-generation agentic testing tools; define standards for agentic testing.
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