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Experience Prototyper – Software

Apple· Hardware
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Cupertino, CA$184.7k - $324.8kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Experience prototypers combine skills in user experience design and software development to explore new product design spaces across the Apple ecosystem, building interactive prototypes in collaboration with hardware and software engineers to inform decisions and bring ideas to life.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, develop, and iterate on prototypes to explore and validate opportunities within new product design spaces
  • Design and build interactive prototypes of new interaction models and user interfaces, with strong aesthetic and design sensibility
  • Modify Apple’s UI frameworks and core OS components to add support for prototype hardware sensors and actuators
  • Partner closely with hardware and systems engineers to inform hardware architecture, and to ensure necessary integration with custom hardware platforms
  • Communicate design intent and architecture decisions clearly through sketches, storyboards, scenarios, and technical block diagrams
  • Document prototypes thoughtfully with video and other means
  • Synthesize findings and reflections into a coherent story, contextualizing and framing the work as appropriate for different audiences at Apple

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience with native UI development for iOS, macOS, or similar platforms using Swift, C, Objective-C, or C++
  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science/computer engineering, or equivalent career experience
  • Fluency with interaction design methods: concept sketching/diagramming, problem framing, visual storytelling
  • Natural curiosity and intuitive desire to quickly build something tangible to explore an idea
  • Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new technologies, tools, and domains, and to adapt your skillset as project needs evolve
  • Dynamic range necessary to work effectively at different levels of refinement, from scrappy to polished
  • Comfort with ambiguity, open-ended exploration, and far-out ideas
  • Attention to the functional and aesthetic details of user interface design, and consideration of human factors
  • Familiarity with common hardware sensors, digital signal processing, gesture detection, or firmware development
  • Experience with graphical animations, motion design, or GPU shader programming
  • Familiarity with generative AI workflows

Skills

Required:UI development for iOS/macOSInteraction design methodsPrototype hardware integrationHardware-software collaborationCommunication & storytelling

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation eligibility
  • participation in Apple stock programs and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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