Agentic Tooling Engineer - Development Experience

Summary

The Xcode and Developer Tooling teams provide the tools to develop software for Apple's innovative iOS, watchOS, tvOS and macOS platforms. Because tools are our products, we have the unique and rewarding opportunity to apply personal experience to enhance and augment the tools we and agents use everyday.

Xcode Previews and Playgrounds change the way we build apps with immediate feedback for both developers and agents, whether in powerful IDEs like Xcode or in external experiences via Xcode's rich suite of MCP tools. The Live Coding 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 and FoundationModels, operating systems, and user interface development. Xcode Previews touch every part of the system: from the details of the Swift grammar, to build systems, to app development and lifecycle, to the forefront of agentic techniques, 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 agentic workflows and strategies. We develop components that are built in to all of our operating systems, as well as technology and experiences used by Xcode and other developer tools that uses those operating system components to bring the developer's code 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 agents, 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 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

Pay & Benefits — Cupertino, California, United States

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $150,400 and $277,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Application Deadline

Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.