Software Engineer - iOS Keyboard, Input Experience
Summary
Are you passionate about helping people communicate all over the world? The iOS Keyboard is
one of the most-used software applications in the world and is used to type billions of
messages every day. We build the keyboard and text editing experience for iPhone & iPad,
including features such as QuickType, QuickPath, AutoFill, Writing Tools etc. as well as text input
technologies on all Apple platforms—iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS—including frameworks
and developer APIs. We are looking for a creative and hardworking software engineer to help
craft the next generation of Keyboard and Text Input experiences that are intuitive, personal,
and inclusive of people all over the world, across many different languages and cultures, all
while respecting each userʼs privacy.
Description
Collaborate with a world-class design team and hard-working engineers to innovate and deliver
high-impact features that fuse best-in-class user interfaces with innovative machine learning
technologies. You will be responsible for a combination of software design exploration,
implementation, and maintenance of cross-platform frameworks and applications. You will
develop production-quality software while working through iterative development cycles. You
will partner with many teams at Apple to deliver best-in-class features such as Accessibility,
Design, Hardware, Localization, Natural Language Processing, Privacy, etc.
Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in building iOS apps using Appleʼs UI frameworks
- Experience with Objective-C, C, Swift, or C++ programming
- Exposure to modern software development standard methodologies, such as source control,
- unit testing, and debugging
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Passion to improve Appleʼs products
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelorʼs Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience in building iOS apps using Appleʼs UI frameworks
- Passion and experience for languages, internationalization
- Familiarity with software optimization and performance measurement tools
- Ability to effectively contribute to several concurrent projects
- Ability to thrive in a highly collaborative environment