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Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple's Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It's Apple's central nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here.

Employee Experience and Productivity (EEP) is part of IS&T and delivers some of the most widely used communication and productivity technology and services across Apple - from tools that enable collaboration to the support teams that keep Apple's workforce running. EEP also leads user experience design and research, and manages the systems behind Apple's original content studios. Within this team is Employee Engagement & Engineering, a small, global team that quickly delivers with long-term vision, building durable, reliable systems meant to last. Our focus is on crafting high-quality, user-centred experiences - delivering AI and system interoperability to make every interaction intuitive, seamless, and genuinely useful for the people who rely on our tools.

Description

You collaborate with a small team on the technical strategy for how native applications are imagined, built, integrated, and evolved across our platforms. You shape multi-year direction for the team's platform architecture, establish engineering practices that raise the quality bar, and lead the resolution of the most complex challenges - those that span multiple systems and carry broad impact on the employee experience.

You collaborate directly with leadership, and represent the team in cross-functional technical forums. You are expected to grow the next generation of engineers through mentorship, well crafted code, and technical leadership by example. Your influence defines how the platform evolves and how applications are experienced by thousands of Apple employees worldwide.","responsibilities":"Define and drive the technical strategy and multi-year architecture roadmap for EEE's native application platform

Lead the design and delivery of the team's most critical systems - high-quality, cross-platform applications that serve Apple employees globally

Identify systemic engineering challenges and drive team-wide improvements in quality, reliability, accessibility, and developer productivity

Shape how AI and platform interoperability are leveraged across the application portfolio - establishing patterns and best practices

Serve as a technical authority in cross-functional design reviews, architecture forums, and strategic planning

Mentor and develop engineers at all levels; accelerate their growth and broaden their technical impact

Champion engineering excellence, accessibility, and inclusive design across the team's work

Drive adoption of emerging Apple platform capabilities and AI technologies across the team's applications

Engage with leadership to communicate technical vision, manage risk, and shape investment priorities

Lead hiring efforts for engineering roles; define criteria and calibrate the technical bar

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with AI integration patterns and platform interoperability at an architectural level

Deep understanding of user experience quality - you set the bar for how applications should feel

Experience defining platform architecture for native applications serving large internal or external user bases

History of driving technical innovation with broad adoption across a team or organisation

Experience shaping engineering culture around quality, inclusion, and technical growth

Deep familiarity with Apple's AI frameworks (Core ML, Foundation Models, MLX) and system integration capabilities (App Intents, extensions)

Record of successful cross-functional influence at a senior level

Experience with globally distributed teams and asynchronous collaboration at scale

Minimum Qualifications

Exceptional depth in Swift, SwiftUI, and Apple-platform architecture across macOS, iOS, and iPadOS

Demonstrated ability to define and drive technical strategy across multiple application domains

Proven track record of mentoring engineers and raising the technical quality of a team

B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience

About Apple

Working at Apple means doing more than you ever thought possible and having more impact than you ever imagined.

Size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Technology

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