Car Experience Software Engineer - UI, Wireless Technologies & Ecosystems

CompanyApple
LocationCupertino, United States of America
CategorySoftware Engineering
DepartmentSoftware and Services
Seniority-
Workplace-
Posted2026-07-18
Viaapple

Description

The people here at Apple don’t just create products — they create the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries! It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it.

Description
The iOS Car Experience team gives customers smarter, safer ways to use iPhone in the car. We craft solutions like CarPlay and Do Not Disturb While Driving, and we also partner with a broad multi-functional team inside Apple to deliver experiences such as digital car key. We work hand-in-hand with automakers worldwide to integrate features into nearly every new vehicle shipping today, features that drivers love and use every day. We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated developer with experience in application or framework development to design and develop in-vehicle Apple experiences of the future.

Responsibilities
In this position, you will be responsible for implementing features built in to the operating system that power in-car features such as CarPlay. This includes the design and implementation itself in both system apps and supporting frameworks. You’ll work closely with our design team crafting the user experiences our users depend on on a daily basis. You’ll also deep dive into our code base, optimizing the size and performance of applications and frameworks, and drive the quality high by fixing bugs. You will interact with the brightest minds in the industry and tackle some of the most demanding problems.

Minimum qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent job-related experience.
3 years of object-oriented programming experience in Objective-C or Swift

Preferred qualifications
UI programming experience in UIKit or SwiftUI
Creativity and passion for design
Comfortable with a large code base, dynamic working environments, and tight schedules
Strong debugging and analytical skills
Experience developing multi-threaded and/or multi-process systems using IPC is beneficial
Experience developing software with any of the following frameworks is a plus: CarPlay, CoreLocation, CoreMedia, MediaPlayer