# Mobile iOS Engineer

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: New York, NY; Palo Alto, CA; Remote
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $180,000 - $440,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120599684

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/4985386007
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_52164d05-463

## Description

## About the Role

We're seeking an exceptional iOS engineer to join a small, high-impact team dedicated to creating the world's most valuable AI application, judged by the impact it delivers to users.

## Responsibilities

- Dream up and craft delightful, intuitive user experiences that redefine how people interact with AI on mobile.

- Obsess over every pixel, animation, and interaction, ensuring the experience feels magical and seamless.

- Build blazing-fast, highly performant systems where every millisecond counts.

- Drive technical and product decisions, collaborating with AI researchers and engineers to deploy state-of-the-art models globally.

## Basic Qualifications

- Expert in Swift, with deep knowledge of UIKit and SwiftUI.

- Proficient in performance optimization,memory, CPU, GPU,using low-level tools to deliver blazing-fast systems.

- Experienced in designing and shipping intuitive, pixel-perfect mobile UIs that redefine how users interact with AI.

- Skilled in concurrency and reactive programming (Combine) for responsive, real-time apps.

- Built high-throughput integrations with APIs (REST, gRPC) or AI model outputs, ensuring seamless data flow.

- Capable of owning complex features end-to-end, from architecture to App Store deployment, with a focus on speed and scalability.

## Preferred Skills and Experience

- Deep expertise in the Apple ecosystem and related development tools.

- Rust for working with our backend components.

- AVFoundation for real-time audio processing.

- Track record of shipping standout apps or standout features within apps.

- Deep expertise in iOS development, particularly with Swift. We seek individuals who operate at the highest levels of their craft.

- Excel at delivering results swiftly, often in a fraction of the time others require. Speed is a core value at xAI,we must act decisively to succeed.

- A sharp product sense, with an ability to empathize with users, anticipate their needs, and translate that into features that delight and deliver value.

## Compensation and Benefits

$180,000 - $440,000 USD

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

## Skills

### Required
- Swift
- UIKit
- SwiftUI
- performance optimization
- concurrency and reactive programming
- API integrations

### Nice to have
- Rust
- AVFoundation
- iOS development
- product sense