Apple

Software Engineer - Generative UI, Input Experience

Apple$150K — $180K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • Expert-level proficiency in Swift, particularly with SwiftUI
  • Experience leading a project end-to-end, including public API development
  • Hands-on experience with generative models for user-facing features
  • Experience in setting technical direction and mentoring others

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with design and AI teams to create innovative user interfaces
  • Set the technical direction and team culture as part of a pioneering group
  • Execute runtime productization while securing the boundaries around it
  • Ensure high generation quality through iterative prompt evaluation and validation
  • Design UI frameworks for dynamically generated interfaces
  • Drive features from conceptualization to deployment across multiple platforms

Benefits

  • Be part of an innovative, first-of-its-kind engineering team
  • Opportunities to collaborate directly with top-tier design and AI/ML teams at Apple
  • Engage in creative, rapid design exploration for user interfaces
  • Influence the engineering standards and practices for the new team
  • Potential to shape foundational aspects of Apple’s generative UI capabilities
Full Job Description
Most interfaces are designed months before anyone uses them. We're building the ones that aren't - interfaces composed on demand, in response to what someone asked for, or what they're about to need.

The biggest decisions are still ahead: what the frameworks look like, where the runtime boundary sits, how we tell a good generated interface from a bad one. You'd be making them - working out how to meet the craft and polish people expect from Apple without giving up the range and surprise that make generative UI exciting.

Description

As one of the first engineers on a newly formed team, you will partner directly with Apple's design studio and AI teams to invent this paradigm. You'll help set the technical direction, shape the team's culture, and establish the bar for our engineering.

One half of the job is interface craft: layout, motion, responsiveness, and the thousand details that make something feel native. The other half is building the system that decides at runtime what the interface should even be - generating something a designer would normally draw.

The work in front of us: productizing the execution runtime and hardening the security boundary around it; driving generation quality through prompt iteration, automated evaluation, and output validation; designing the UI frameworks that generated interfaces are built from; and shipping the features that people rely on. This requires a rare balance: rapid, highly ambiguous design exploration to find what feels right, followed by the rigorous engineering required to ship cross-platform frameworks at Apple scale. You will partner with AI/ML teams, app teams, framework owners, security engineers, and designers across Apple to take features from idea to shipping.

Minimum Qualifications

6+ years of software engineering experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Expert-level Swift, with production SwiftUI (or comparable declarative UI)

Led an application or framework end to end, including its public API and its adopters

Hands-on experience building user-facing features with generative models (shipped or prototyped)

Experience setting technical direction across teams and mentoring engineers

Preferred Qualifications

Because this is a foundational role on a new team, we don't expect you to have every skill listed below. We are looking for deep expertise in a few areas, and the engineering fundamentals to learn the rest:

Experience productizing a language runtime, interpreter, or VM under real workloads

Experience designing a DSL, schema, or API surface that another system or model generates against

Familiarity with sandboxing untrusted code and mediating its access to data and system capabilities

Ability to reason adversarially about an API surface

Experience defending against prompt injection - guardrails, trust boundaries for retrieved content, personal data in context

Experience evaluating nondeterministic systems: golden sets, automated judges, metrics that track what users notice

Hands-on experience with prompt design, tool definitions, structured output, and output validation

Experience shipping a production ML-backed feature at scale

Strong design sensibility, and the judgment to tell when a generated interface isn't good enough

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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$63.9 billion
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1976
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