Apple

Senior Technical Artist Engineer

Apple • $140K — $170K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience with Metal framework or similar graphics technologies
  • Proficient in writing shaders for visual effects and real-time 3D graphics
  • Experience with particle systems, simulations, and procedural visuals
  • Strong understanding of GPU pipeline and shader performance optimization
  • Proficient in Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit
  • Ability to collaborate closely with designers and iterate quickly
  • Strong programming skills with a passion for new technologies

Responsibilities

  • Build real-time visual systems using Metal and VFX
  • Write and optimize shaders to maintain frame rate on devices
  • Create custom controls, transitions, and gesture-driven animations
  • Provide code and integration support for complex visual features
  • Develop tools and plugins for the design team
  • Iterate on visual concepts as project requirements evolve

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
  • Opportunity to shape future experiences for Apple platforms
  • Access to cutting-edge technologies and tools
  • Creative freedom to explore new ideas and concepts
  • Potential for professional growth within a leading tech company
Full Job Description
Description

Apple's Product & Design is seeking a Senior Technical Artist Engineer to join a team of motion designers, technical artists, and engineers crafting future experiences and interactions for Apple platforms. You'll partner closely with Design teams across the Services organization, like Apple Weather, Apple Pay, and Apple Sports, to create experiences with the fluidity and polish people expect from Apple.

You'll spend most of your time bringing compelling visuals and interactions to life, while also helping shape what comes next by exploring new ideas. The ideal candidate is creative enough to imagine experiences at that level of polish and technical enough to build them.

Build real-time visual systems in Metal & VFX: materials and effects, particles and simulation, procedural and generative visuals, and the custom interfaces they live in. Write and optimize shaders that hold frame rate on device. Build custom controls, transitions, and gesture-driven animation from the ground up. Build multiple iterations as requirements evolve quickly. Provide code and integration support to engineering teams for product features that require complex visual elements and animation. Create tools and plugins needed by the design team.

Minimum Qualifications

7+ years of experience with the Metal framework or similar graphics technologies, writing shaders for visual effects, custom filters, and real-time 3D graphics.

Experience authoring particle systems, simulations, or other procedural and generative visual systems.

Understanding of the GPU pipeline, shader performance optimization, and platform constraints.

Experience building custom controls, transitions, and gesture-driven animation from the ground up, and integrating GPU-rendered content into a live view hierarchy.

Proficiency with Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit.

Ability to work closely with designers and iterate quickly on ideas.

Strong programming skills and a passion for learning new and evolving technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

A portfolio, reel, or set of builds demonstrating shader, effects, or generative work.

Creative coding and real-time engine experience: Processing, p5.js, Three.js, WebGL/GLSL, TouchDesigner, or Unity.

Experience importing/exporting files from Cinema 4D, Maya, Houdini, Blender, or other 3D software.

Experience with RealityKit, Reality Composer, SceneKit, or ARKit.

Scripting tools experience (e.g., for prototyping workflows or macOS apps).

A sharp eye for UI and interaction design with a strong sense of motion, detail, and timing.

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.

Apple Careers

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Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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