Finder and Files Application Engineer

Looking to make a difference and shape the interface people use to manage their files on every Apple platform? Come join our collaborative, driven team! Finder and Files are at the center of how people manage their digital life on all Apple platforms. As our UI architect, you will set the direction for an interface that must feel immediate on a Mac, a touch screen, and a spatial display. Your impact will extend well beyond Finder and Files, into how iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS present and sync that content.

We build the Finder and Files applications on macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS. To provide an exceptional experience, we work closely with file systems, frameworks, and applications teams. We are looking for a senior engineer who will own the UI architecture of our applications, and who is eager to build consensus across the team and across Apple. As the Finder and Files UI architect, you will own the architecture of a UI used every day by hundreds of millions of people, and shape the data model that feeds it.

You will decide where the platforms share one foundation, and where they should diverge. In this position you will: Own the UI architecture of the Finder and Files clients: the view layer, and the state and data flow beneath it. Partner with design from the first sketch to the shipped pixel, and turn interaction concepts into an architecture that can carry them across four platforms. Work with the file systems and frameworks teams to define what the UI needs from the layers beneath it.