Senior iOS Engineer - Creativity Apps

About the role

Apple is building the future of creative expression and needs senior engineers to craft high‑performance applications that empower artists, designers, musicians and innovators. As a Senior iOS Engineer on the Creativity Apps team you will shape the next generation of editing tools used by millions worldwide.

Key responsibilities

• Own product‑focused features from concept through prototype, user testing and final shipped experience.
• Define and evolve technical architecture for complex imaging workflows, ensuring scalability and performance.
• Integrate on‑device machine‑learning models, balancing accuracy, latency and memory.
• Optimize performance, resource utilization and responsiveness for demanding media pipelines.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with design, product, ML researchers and other engineering teams.

Required profile

• 6+ years of professional experience building and shipping production software.
• Demonstrated mastery of software architecture patterns, data structures and algorithms in high‑performance contexts.
• Strong product sense with a history of owning end‑to‑end user experiences.
• Proven ability to work effectively with design, product and partner engineering teams.

Required skills

• Swift, Objective‑C, C++, Rust, Kotlin, Java.
• Apple frameworks: UIKit, SwiftUI, Core Animation, AVFoundation, Core Image, Metal.
• Machine Learning integration and on‑device inference.
• AI‑assisted development tools.