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We create for every age and audience, anchored by the strength of our content and experiences and the depth of our connection with fans. We are creator-first, audience-focused, tech-forward, globally scaled.\nHere, you’ll work with talented teams that move fast, think boldly and collaborate with purpose to deliver results. We aim high, champion the best ideas and win together, earning the trust of our employees, creators, partners and audiences every day.\nIf you’re energized by the opportunity to help build the next-generation global media and entertainment company powered by creativity and technology, we’d be thrilled to welcome you aboard. LET’S GO!\nLOCATION\nSan Francisco, Burbank, or New York - Onsite\nABOUT THE ROLE\nParamount Streaming is seeking a Lead Software Engineer - Apple to join the AI Engagement Engine team as a senior individual contributor. This role focuses on building high-performance, user-facing features that power content discovery and personalization across Paramount+ and Pluto TV applications on iOS and tvOS.\nYou’ll work with backend, machine learning, data, and platform teams to deliver scalable, seamless user experiences. You’ll own complex technical initiatives end-to-end, contribute to the architecture of Apple applications, and partner with technical leadership to establish engineering best practices.\nAI-assisted development is a core expectation for this role. You’ll combine deep Apple platform expertise with daily use of AI coding assistants and agents, including tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Copilot. You’ll work with Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations and agent harnesses to support engineering workflows and collaborate with ML and data science teams on AI-powered experiences such as recommendations, search, personalization, and conversational interfaces. Experience shipping ML- or LLM-powered mobile features is preferred.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\nContribute to architectural decisions, frameworks, and tooling for iOS and tvOS applications.\n\nDesign, develop, test, debug, and deploy native Apple platform applications.\n\nImprove application performance, reliability, accessibility, and scalability.\n\nUse AI coding assistants and agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent tools as part of daily development workflows.\n\nUse MCP integrations and agent harnesses to connect tools and data sources, manage context and instructions, and support appropriate human review.\n\nValidate AI-generated outputs through code review and testing, and troubleshoot workflow failures.\n\nCollaborate on ML- and LLM-driven product features, including recommendations, search, ranking, and content understanding.\n\nMentor engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance.\n\nPartner with product, design, data, backend, and client engineering teams to deliver features.\n\nManage concurrent projects and proactively identify risks and dependencies.\n\nREQUIRED SKILLS\nStrong Swift development skills.\n\nDeep knowledge of iOS, tvOS, and Xcode.\n\nStrong understanding of memory management, concurrency, animations, and performance optimization.\n\nExperience integrating RESTful APIs and backend services.\n\nStrong architectural and problem-solving skills.\n\nExperience with A/B testing, feature flagging, and client-side experimentation frameworks.\n\nExperience integrating advertising technologies into Apple applications.\n\nClear communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills.\n\nAI LITERACY\nDaily hands-on use of AI coding assistants and agents.\n\nExperience writing and refining prompts and context, and evaluating AI-generated code.\n\nWorking understanding of MCP, including how AI tools connect to external tools and data sources, with appropriate permissions.\n\nUnderstanding of agent harnesses, including how they manage context, instructions, tool execution, and human review.\n\nWorking familiarity with skills and plugins that extend AI coding tools.\n\nWorking knowledge of LLMs, embeddings, retrieval systems, and AI application design considerations.\n\nExperience building or prototyping AI-powered product features.\n\nUnderstanding of responsible AI practices, including privacy, intellectual property, attribution, and review processes.\n\nBASIC QUALIFICATIONS\n7+ years of Apple platform development experience.\n\nSignificant contribution to at least one publicly released native iPhone application.\n\nDemonstrable, current use of AI coding tools and agents in day-to-day engineering work.\n\nHands-on experience using Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations and agent harnesses in engineering workflows, including validating outputs and troubleshooting failures.\n\nExperience working in Agile development environments.\n\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.\n\nExperience integrating video and rich media into mobile applications.\n\nExperience building personalized, data-driven, or server-driven user experiences.\n\nExperience shipping ML- or LLM-powered mobile features.\n\nExperience in entertainment, media, sports, gaming, or news industries.\n\nBONUS SKILLS\nExperience creating reusable skills, plugins, or custom agents, or building and extending MCP integrations or agent harnesses.\n\nContinuous integration and automated testing.\n\nStreaming video technologies and DRM.\n\nLocalization tools and practices.\n\nSwift Package Manager.\n\nExperience evaluating AI model quality, latency, and cost trade-offs.\n\nParamount+, a direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service from Paramount Global, combines live sports, breaking news, and a mountain of entertainment. The premium streaming service features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel. The service is also the streaming home to unmatched sports programming, including every CBS Sports event, from golf to football to basketball and more, plus exclusive streaming rights for major sports properties, including some of the world’s biggest and most popular soccer leagues. Paramount+ also enables subscribers to stream local CBS stations live across the U.S. in addition to the ability to stream Paramount Streaming’s other live channels: CBSN for 24/7 news, CBS Sports HQ for sports news and analysis, and ET Live for entertainment coverage.\nADDITIONAL INFORMATION\nHiring Salary Range: $156,800.00 - 235,200.00.\nThe hiring salary range for this position applies to New York, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable, as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement. This position is bonus eligible.\nWhat We Offer:\nAttractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages. Check out our full list of benefits here.\nGenerous paid time off.\nComplimentary subscriptions to HBO Max, Paramount+, and other Skydance streaming services and digital news products.\nRobust employee engagement opportunities, including access to exclusive screenings and events, speaker series, volunteer activities and more.\nSkydance is an equal opportunity employer (EOE)\nWe embrace the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit. 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