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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 by providing technical leadership across the full engineering lifecycle
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
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
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
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
Deep proficiency in Swift and SwiftUI, with demonstrated experience shipping polished, production applications on macOS, iOS, or iPadOS
Demonstrated ability to define and drive technical strategy across multiple application domains
Demonstrated technical leadership experience, including setting technical direction, resolving cross-system architectural challenges, and influencing engineering practices at a team or organizational level
Full-stack experience across native and web technologies, with working knowledge of backend services, APIs, and data layer architecture

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Size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Technology

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