# API Review & Design Engineer

Our small, outstanding team in Apple’s Software Engineering division is chartered to help framework teams throughout the company ensure the Apple developer experience is just as carefully crafted as Apple's end-user hardware and software products. We’re looking for someone who’s passionate about software design and excited to play a key role in organizing multi-functional projects. As a member of our team, you’ll have a unique opportunity to help shape the technologies that inspire developers around the world and empower them to realize their dreams. Description Our team provides API design guidance, consulting, and outreach to framework engineering teams to support the development of consistent, complete, and intuitive APIs. We establish and maintain API guidelines for our operating systems and review the design of software programming interfaces to ensure comprehensive access to platform functionality is available through Apple's SDKs. The team also reviews the needs of Apple applications to identify missing functionality in the SDKs and recommends and tracks API additions to fill identified gaps. You’ll help us refine and implement this mission. Ours is a small team with a broad

- **Id**: 4066481
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-api-review-design-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cupertino, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2025-10-07T19:11:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T11:32:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 399
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Operating Systems, Laptops, Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers, Tablets

## Company

- **Id**: 12
- **Name**: Apple
- **Domain**: apple.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/apple>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Apple Jobs

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 824
- **Ghost share**: 0
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- **Repost share**: 0.006
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 122
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **Objective-C** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 399

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T11:26:07Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,350 · green card filings: 39; Filings 12m: 6350

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- **Score**: 10
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- **Age days**: 399
- **Expected fill days**: 83
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T12:57:45Z

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