
Senior AI Software Engineer, App Intelligence
Required skills
- production software
- Swift
- Objective-C
- C++
- large language models
- tooling
- function-calling
- context construction
- output validation
- agentic coding tools
Nice to have
- resource constrained environments
- latency
- memory
- power budgets
- cross-functional components
- platform interfaces
Role summary
We are seeking experienced AI Software Engineers to develop on-device software that enables Siri to deliver app intelligence. This role involves understanding app capabilities, modeling them for assistant use, and building reliable, fast on-device software. You will partner with Siri's planning and execution engine teams, focusing on how apps express their capabilities and ensuring a trustworthy user experience. This is an early-stage role where you will help define how apps expose themselves to assistants by designing interfaces, validating them with app partners, and iterating based on learnings. Expect ambiguity and the opportunity to shape architecture with working software and measured results.
Description
In this role, you will be at the forefront of developing software on device that enables Siri to deliver on app Intelligence throughout the OS. We bring app intelligence to Siri by working directly with app teams to understand what their apps can do, modeling those capabilities so an assistant can use them well, and building the on-device software that makes the resulting experiences reliable and fast. We partner closely with the team that builds Siri's planning and execution engine, and we work the app side of that partnership: what apps can offer, how they express it, and whether the resulting experience is good enough to trust. This is early work. How apps best expose themselves to an assistant is an open question — you will help answer it by designing the interfaces, proving them out with real app partners, and iterating as we learn. Expect real ambiguity, and expect to form your own view of the right architecture and defend it with working software and measured results.
Minimum Qualifications
4+ years experience developing and shipping production software Strong proficiency in Swift, Objective-C or C++ Experience building product features on top of large language models — designing tool and function-calling interfaces, constructing context, and validating model output Fluency with agentic coding tools for accelerating engineering productivity, with good judgment about where to apply them and how to verify what they produce Exceptional problem-solving skills, and the ability to drive alignment across teams on shared API surfaces Proven ability to excel in a fast-paced development team
Preferred Qualifications
Experience designing and developing systems that are efficient in resource constrained environments — latency, memory, and power budgets on device Experience building the scaffolding around models — tool interfaces, retrieval and context construction, output validation — with strong intuition for model behavior and failure modes Experience building key software components and APIs used cross functionally across different applications and platforms, including versioning and compatibility of interfaces that shipped clients depend on Experience with evaluation, benchmarking, and telemetry for systems whose output is probabilistic rather than deterministic
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