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Software Engineer - User Interface

Apple

Cupertino, California, United States of America
Full-time, Part-time, Contract, Regular, Temporary
Posted Aug 26, 2025
40 hours/week

About the role

Imagines what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn’t have imagined, and now, can’t imagine living without. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do.

Responsibilities

  • Performs quick prototyping by drawing conceptual design mockups
  • Shares and iterates with visual designers
  • Implements functioning software code
  • Demonstrates and iterates for turning prototypes into a real feature
  • Designs Application Programming Interface (API)
  • Shares abstract and proposals to seek feedback and iterate and reach compromise
  • Implements the code to efficiently perform the software operations in a scalable and shareable way with other system components
  • Designs user feature development by understanding user benefit, designs flow of data exchanges and user interactions, and iterates with designers and users
  • Implements user feature for Search experience on Apple Devices
  • Writes software tests including defining testing surface, writing unit test that exercise the code paths, writing performance tests that measure time and allow to control stability, and ensures tests are part of frameworks in order to be re-used for other Operating System Platforms and other system experiences interfaces
  • Presents UI features by developing clear demo scripts, communicates to senior leaders and seeks compromise for decision making

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or related field
  • 2 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation
  • 1 year of experience with each of the following skills
  • Work with designers to assess features feasibility using Sketch
  • Integrate with other components of the operating system in the file system operations
  • Improve overall performance of the features through analysis of super precise performance logging output using ARtrace
  • Develop automated scripts measuring performance of operations and ensuring deployment in continuous integration
  • Develop features as framework so they can be re-used in other systems
  • Prototype new feature ideas using SwiftUI and present to management
  • Debugging software using an interactive debugger, including Xcode
  • Translating design requirements into functional specifications

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Reimbursement for certain educational expenses
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
  • Relocation assistance

About the Company

Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn’t have imagined, and now, can’t imagine living without. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do.

Job Details

Salary Range

$147,400 - $220,900/yearly

Location

Cupertino, California, United States of America

Employment Type

Full-time, Part-time, Contract, Regular, Temporary

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