iOS Developer – AI Apps

A1 is a self-funded AI group, operating in full stealth. We’re building a new global consumer AI application where iOS is a core platform, not an afterthought.

This is a founding iOS role. You’ll design AI-powered mobile systems that balance UX excellence with the realities of AI latency, streaming, and failure modes.

Why This Role Matters

• You define how AI feels in users’ hands
• You bridge backend intelligence with human interaction
• You help establish iOS engineering standards from zero
• You influence product direction through what’s possible on-device
  
  

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain iOS apps using Swift / SwiftUI
• Integrate AI-powered features via backend APIs
• Implement camera, microphone, and media pipelines
• Design UX for AI interactions (loading, streaming, retries, fallbacks)
• Optimize performance, memory, and battery usage
• Capture user feedback and signals for AI evaluation
• Collaborate with backend and AI teams on API design
• Maintain high App Store quality and production stability
  
  

What It’s Like to Work Here

• You own features end-to-end
• You design systems, not just screens
• You think deeply about latency, reliability, and UX tradeoffs
• You move fast, test in production, and iterate
• You work closely with senior engineers and founders
  
  

Requirements

• 3+ years of iOS development experience (Swift)
• Hands-on experience integrating AI features
• Strong understanding of async/await and background tasks
• Experience with camera, audio, and local storage
• Solid iOS performance and memory optimization skills
• Experience shipping production apps
  
  

Nice to Have

• Exposure to CoreML or on-device ML
• Built AI chat, voice, or streaming-based apps
• Experience with feature flags or remote config
• Strong intuition for AI UX patterns
  
  

Our Team & Culture

We operate as a dense, senior, high-performance team. We value clarity, speed, craftsmanship, and relentless ownership. We behave like founders — we build, ship, iterate, and hold ourselves to a high technical bar.

If you value excellence, enjoy building real systems, and want to be part of a small team creating something globally impactful, you’ll thrive here.

About A1

A1 is a self-funded, independent AI group, focused on building a new consumer AI product with global impact. We’re assembling a small, elite team of ML and engineering builders who want to work on meaningful, high-impact problems.