Apple

SwiftUI Previews Engineer

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

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience in Swift for app or framework development
  • Led development of a significant cross-functional feature
  • Proficient in concurrency management (dispatch queues or Swift concurrency)
  • Experience with developer tools in a software engineering context
  • Familiar with SwiftUI and Apple operating system fundamentals
  • Knowledge of large language models (LLMs) is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the design and development of SwiftUI Previews
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams on developer tools and user experiences
  • Solve complex problems with innovative engineering techniques
  • Engage in both low-level programming and high-level UI design
  • Participate in the integration of ML techniques for code generation
  • Influence design decisions across various products within the Apple ecosystem
  • Support iterative development processes through hands-on experimentation

Benefits

  • Opportunity to influence product design and strategy across the Apple ecosystem
  • Work at the intersection of languages, compilers, frameworks, and UI development
  • Engagement with a dynamic team fostering continuous learning and growth
  • Involvement in innovative technology development impacting developer experiences
  • Access to state-of-the-art tools and IDEs like Xcode and Swift Playgrounds
Full Job Description
SwiftUI Previews change the way we build apps with immediate visual feedback and rich editing tools, whether in powerful IDEs like Xcode or the light weight and iterative Swift Playgrounds experiences. The SwiftUI Previews team is looking for an engineer who loves to learn to help us take fast, iterative development even further.

Description

We're looking for an engineer who loves to sit at the cross section of languages, compilers, frameworks like SwiftUI, operating systems, and user interface development. SwiftUI Previews touch every part of the system: from the details of the Swift grammar, to build systems, to app development and lifecycle, to designing and building beautiful custom UI, to the forefront of ML techniques for code generation, to the depths of our operating systems. Working on this team can involve everything from low level programming to high level UI design and interaction to ML workflows and strategies. We develop components that are builtin into all of our operating systems, as well as technology and experiences used by Xcode and Swift Playgrounds that uses those operating system components to bring apps to life.

This position requires a highly creative, curious, and self-motivated individual. We're looking for engineers who love to learn, love to work with a variety of teams and disciplines to bring the best experience for our developers, and who thrive on ambiguous problems to explore unpaved paths. You will have the opportunity to affect design decisions not only on developer-facing tools, but also for our frameworks, and for future products across the Apple ecosystem.

Minimum Qualifications

Constant curiosity to learn new technologies & discover new techniques to solve ambiguous problems

Over 5 years of experience with Swift writing one of: apps or frameworks

Has led development of a major cross functional feature

Proficient with one of the following concurrency approaches: dispatch queues or Swift concurrency

Experience and opinions about the way software is engineered and qualified

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working on developer tools

Exposure to SwiftUI or Apple operating system fundamentals

Exposure to LLMs

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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