System UI Engineer – Apple Vision Pro

Summary

Posted: Feb 13, 2025

Role Number:200591492

Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other’s ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It’s the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you’ll do more than join something — you’ll add something. Apple Vision Pro is a revolutionary spatial computer that seamlessly blends digital content with your physical space. It will allow us to do the things we love in ways never before possible — all while staying connected to the people around us. The Vision Products Group (VPG) is looking for an engineer to help build the next generation of system experiences for visionOS. This team is working with some of Apple’s most advanced technologies including spatial computing, ARKit, and RealityKit to create system experiences such as Control Center, Mac Virtual Display, Notifications, and other ground-breaking visionOS experiences.

Description

The visionOS System UI team works cross-functionally with design, hardware, and software engineering teams to build the system applications for Apple Vision Pro. As an engineer on the visionOS System UI team, you will work with technologies such as ARKit, RealityKit, and SwiftUI to build experiences for Apple Vision Pro while collaborating with the Apple design team to develop and iterate first-class applications such as Display Adjustment, Lock Screen, and the hand-anchored affordances for Home View and Control Center. As part of the team, you will collaborate with team members to solve difficult but rewarding challenges from exploring techniques to reduce rendering time on a millisecond scale to optimizing Mac Virtual Display by performing dynamic foveation on the Mac. You’ll have the opportunity to work closely with the Apple design team to fine tune a core system experience, lead an architecture review from proposal to implementation, or perfect your low-level systems understanding.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience in software engineering
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent engineering degree
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with design and engineering teams
• Proficient in C, Objective-C, or Swift
• Experience in writing multi-threaded, asynchronous code
• Understanding of UI design best practices (e.g. AppKit, SwiftUI, UIKit)

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to diagnose and resolve multithreading and memory corruption issues
• Experience in API design and building testable architectures (e.g. dependency injection, Swift Testing, XCTest)
• Experience with low-latency networked communication and best practices
• Proficient in rendering technologies, including Core Animation, Metal, rendering pipelines

Pay & Benefits

• 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 $128,300 and $237,500, 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.