Apple

UI Frameworks Engineer, macOS

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

Qualifications

  • Proficiency with Swift and Objective-C, or ability to quickly learn them.
  • 5+ years of experience in UI development across iOS, macOS, or similar platforms.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • Experience in performance-critical software development.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate within diverse teams.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the development of SwiftUI, AppKit, and UIKit frameworks.
  • Design and implement user interface components like windows, buttons, and sliders.
  • Collaborate with engineers in compiler, performance, security, and design teams.
  • Enhance user interface performance through analysis and optimization.
  • Support integration of new hardware features and input devices.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to collaborate with top experts across various engineering domains.
  • Access to cutting-edge technologies and tools in a fast-paced environment.
  • Potential to shape the future of app development frameworks.
Full Job Description
Description

The Mac UI Frameworks team is responsible for the user interface frameworks that form the heart of macOS applications. Engineers on our team are responsible for and contribute to SwiftUI, AppKit, and UIKit. We provide a wide variety of building blocks including: windows and layout of their content; drawing and graphics support; enabling new input devices and other hardware features; responding to user events; user controls like buttons, sliders, and tables; document management infrastructure; and many others. Youʼll also have the opportunity to collaborate with experts throughout Apple including: compiler engineers, performance experts, security engineers, interface designers, and technical writers. Because we have the privilege of collaborating closely with the Swift, Xcode, design, and framework teams up and down the software stack, we believe Apple's UI frameworks can be - by far - the best app development experience in the world. If youʼre interested in helping define this future and pushing the state of the art forward, weʼd love to hear from you!

Minimum Qualifications

Proficiency with Swift and Objective-C (or the capacity to become proficient quickly).

5+ years of experience with UI development for iOS, macOS, watchOS or other Native Platforms.

Bachelorʼs Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Proven ability to collaborate effectively with a diverse team and thrive in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments.

Strong verbal and written communication skills.

The desire to learn and grow, keeping pace with cutting edge technologies.Passion for software system architecture, API design, and developer experience.

Experience developing performance-critical software, with a solid understanding of systems architecture, modern UI frameworks and their performance characteristics.

Proficiency in performance analysis, debugging, and code optimization techniques to enhance application and user interface performance.

Experience building user interface frameworks and API development.

Adept at working across teams to resolve potentially conflicting requirements.

Experience working with low-level graphics API like Core Image, Core Graphics, or Metal.

Background in framework-level rather than just application-level development.

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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1976
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