Apple

Prototyping Software Engineer, VPG Health & Fitness

Apple$120K — $160K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with production-quality software
  • Proficient in Swift; experience with SwiftUI and UIKit is essential
  • Ability to transform concepts into working, polished prototypes
  • Familiar with build and release pipelines and device provisioning
  • Strong collaboration skills in a cross-functional environment
  • Comfortable working independently in fast-paced, ambiguous settings
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

  • Create and iterate on health, wellbeing, and fitness software prototypes
  • Integrate generative AI capabilities into prototypes
  • Maintain fast and reliable build, release, and demo infrastructure
  • Transition smoothly between product experience and tooling
  • Deliver dependable prototypes for demonstration at any time
  • Develop native applications across various Apple platforms
  • Ensure high quality and reliability of delivered software

Benefits

  • Opportunities to impact millions of users' health and fitness lives
  • Work on innovative projects within a cutting-edge technology environment
  • Collaborative culture with cross-functional teams
  • Access to professional growth and development resources
  • Involvement in high-stakes, meaningful product exploration
Full Job Description
Apple's Vision Products Group is looking for a software engineer to turn early ideas for health, wellbeing, and fitness experiences into working, demo-ready prototypes. You will build native experiences across Apple platforms, integrate generative AI capabilities into those experiences, and help keep the build, release, and demo infrastructure fast and reliable.

The ideal candidate is an engineer who is equally comfortable shaping an interactive experience, wiring up an LLM-driven feature, and keeping the pipelines and devices running smoothly so prototypes get into people's hands. They move quickly from concept to working software, care about the quality and reliability of what they ship, and thrive on working across the experience and operational layers of prototyping rather than within a single slice of it.

Description

This role spans the full prototyping path. You iterate quickly and stay close to the product, taking rough concepts to polished prototypes that are dependable enough to demo at any time. As an idea evolves, you move between the experience itself and the tooling that ships it.

You are a practical, hands-on engineer who writes clean, maintainable Swift, understands the systems that build and deliver it, and has enough design sense to take a rough concept to a working prototype without waiting on a full handoff. As the team takes on new platforms and surfaces, and more AI-driven work, your range lets us grow prototyping capacity without splitting the work across more people. If you are curious, energized by ambiguity, and motivated by building software that helps millions of people live healthier, more active lives, we would love to hear from you.

Minimum Qualifications

* 5+ years of professional experience shipping production-quality software

* Proficiency in Swift and experience building native applications with SwiftUI and/or UIKit

* Demonstrated ability to take concepts to working, polished prototypes

* Experience with build and release pipelines, device provisioning and configuration, or test automation

* Ability to collaborate and work in a highly cross-functional environment

* Comfort working independently and moving quickly through ambiguity in an early-stage, fast-iterating environment

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related subject area, or equivalent industry experience

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience building across multiple Apple platforms, including spatial computing / visionOS using SwiftUI, RealityKit, or ARKit

* Experience integrating LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, or on-device models) into applications, including prompt design, context window management, and output validation

* Strong design sensibility, with the ability to move from concept to prototype independently

* Experience owning CI/CD, device provisioning, or demo/release operations for a fast-moving team

* Familiarity with AI-assisted development tooling and workflows

* A track record of building and demoing prototypes for product exploration

* Advanced degree in Computer Science or a related field

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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