Home Screen UI Engineer

Cupertino Until 9/22/2026 5+ years exp First posted July 24, 2026 Last posted July 24, 2026
Job description

The Home Screen team is looking for a proactive and highly skilled UI engineer to build delightful user experiences for millions of users around the world. Come work with a creative and hardworking team of engineers, multi-functional teams, and world-class designers to deliver the best experience on the planet!

Description

The Home Screen team is responsible for many of the iconic system experiences on Apple devices. The Team is responsible for the Home Screen, Control Center, Status Bar, Volume HUD and various other components on iOS and iPadOS. As an engineer on the Home Screen team, your responsibilities will range from prototyping new user interface paradigms and implementing new features to defining API, fixing bugs, and improving performance. You should have an excellent understanding of software design, good debugging skills and an eagerness to work hard and learn a lot. You should have an eye for detail and a feel for making user interactions feel fluid and fun. As our team works cross-functionally with many other groups across Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering and Design, you should have a good understanding of systems and excellent communication and collaboration skills!

Minimum Qualifications

5-10 years of experience doing one, or multiple of the following:
Developing apps with UIKit and/or SwiftUI
Architecting and implementing reusable public or private APIs
Operating systems programming

Preferred Qualifications

Excellent understanding of optimization and performance issues across OS software layers
Understanding of inter-process communication and systems development

About this role

Summary

Designs and implements user interfaces and system components for iOS and iPadOS.

Job title

Home Screen UI Engineer

Experience level

5+ years

Minimum experience

5+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

Cupertino, on-site with possible remote options

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

UIKitSwiftUIAPIsystems programming

Preferred skills

performance optimizationinter-process communication

Specializations

UIUIKitSwiftUIAPIsystems programming
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Cupertino, CA, USA

On-site City