Apple

Senior AI Software Engineer, App Intelligence

Apple$150K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years experience in software development and production deployment
  • Strong proficiency in Swift, Objective-C, or C++ programming languages
  • Experience designing features using large language models and validating outputs
  • Fluency with coding tools to enhance engineering productivity
  • Exceptional problem-solving and cross-team collaboration skills
  • Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

  • Develop software that enhances Siri’s app intelligence capabilities
  • Collaborate with app teams to model app functionalities for Siri integration
  • Design interfaces to effectively expose app capabilities to Siri
  • Test and iterate on software architecture to improve performance
  • Work alongside Siri’s planning and execution engine team to refine user experiences

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with exposure to cutting-edge technology
  • Opportunity to influence the development of emerging software components
  • Engagement in early-stage projects with high ambiguity and potential for innovation
Full Job Description
In this role, you will be at the forefront of developing software on device that enables Siri to deliver on app Intelligence throughout the OS. We bring app intelligence to Siri by working directly with app teams to understand what their apps can do, modeling those capabilities so an assistant can use them well, and building the on-device software that makes the resulting experiences reliable and fast. We partner closely with the team that builds Siri's planning and execution engine, and we work the app side of that partnership: what apps can offer, how they express it, and whether the resulting experience is good enough to trust.

This is early work. How apps best expose themselves to an assistant is an open question - you will help answer it by designing the interfaces, proving them out with real app partners, and iterating as we learn. Expect real ambiguity, and expect to form your own view of the right architecture and defend it with working software and measured results.

Minimum Qualifications

4+ years experience developing and shipping production software

Strong proficiency in Swift, Objective-C or C++

Experience building product features on top of large language models - designing tool and function-calling interfaces, constructing context, and validating model output

Fluency with agentic coding tools for accelerating engineering productivity, with good judgment about where to apply them and how to verify what they produce

Exceptional problem-solving skills, and the ability to drive alignment across teams on shared API surfaces

Proven ability to excel in a fast-paced development team

Preferred Qualifications

Experience designing and developing systems that are efficient in resource constrained environments - latency, memory, and power budgets on device

Experience building the scaffolding around models - tool interfaces, retrieval and context construction, output validation - with strong intuition for model behavior and failure modes

Experience building key software components and APIs used cross functionally across different applications and platforms, including versioning and compatibility of interfaces that shipped clients depend on

Experience with evaluation, benchmarking, and telemetry for systems whose output is probabilistic rather than deterministic

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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Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
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