Apple

Software Engineer - Model Performance - Special Projects

Apple$130K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software development experience
  • Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals
  • Experience with AI integration in coding
  • Ability to work autonomously and solve ambiguous problems
  • Proficiency in collaborating with cross-functional teams
  • Experience mentoring others and guiding technical direction
  • B.S. in Computer Science or significant equivalent experience

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with engineers, designers, and researchers to develop AI features from concept to product
  • Take initiatives from rough ideas to practical, functioning software
  • Demonstrate problem-solving skills through self-directed exploration and prototyping
  • Build and maintain trust with team members and partners
  • Enhance team capabilities through mentorship and technical guidance
  • Implement AI techniques in software development
  • Adapt quickly to new technologies and platforms

Benefits

  • Work within a tight-knit team environment
  • Enjoy a high degree of autonomy in project execution
  • Gain practical experience with emerging AI technologies
  • Opportunity to mentor and influence junior team members
  • Engage in impactful, cutting-edge software development projects
Full Job Description
Description

You'll work alongside a tight group of engineers, designers, and researchers to bring AI features from early prototype to product. This is 0-to-1 work - from a rough idea on a whiteboard to software running on real devices. You'll have a lot of autonomy in how you get there.

What the day-to-day looks like:

Minimum Qualifications

You've shipped software that people relied on, and you learned something from every hard call along the way

You're someone who unblocks yourself. When the path isn't clear, you figure it out - whether that means reading the source, building a prototype, or pulling in the right people

Comfortable with ambiguity and excited by problems that don't have an obvious answer yet

You work well across teams and build trust with partners in design and engineering

You make the people around you better - through mentoring, shaping technical direction, and the way you approach hard problems

You've already brought AI into how you write code - and you're always looking for the next way to use it

5+ years of development experience, strong CS fundamentals, and a B.S. in Computer Science or significant equivalent experience. iOS and Swift experience is a plus - but if you're strong in another platform, you'll ramp quickly here.

Preferred Qualifications

Deep experience in one or more iOS/macOS domains: system services, UI frameworks, concurrent application architecture, or performance optimization

Practical knowledge of how LLMs work at the lowest level of model design and execution

Close to the frontier. You're the person your team comes to when a new model drops or a new technique emerges

A sharp eye for detail. You notice what's off and you know when it's right

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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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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