Sr. Mobile iOS Engineer

SpaceXSI

Palo Alto, CAJob$200–375K/yrPosted todayStill listed today

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Compensation
$200–375K/yr
Location
Palo Alto, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

SpaceXSI is seeking a senior iOS engineer to build and improve X for iOS on a small, high-impact team. The role spans new features and performance improvements, with ownership of product quality and collaboration across design, backend, Android, and web. The engineer will help shape technical and product decisions and deliver intuitive, responsive mobile experiences.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

SwiftUIKitApple EcosystemApple Development ToolsiOS DevelopmentProduct SensePerformance OptimizationMobile UI DesignConcurrencyReactive ProgrammingCombineAPI IntegrationAI Model IntegrationFeature ArchitectureApp Store Deployment

Qualifications

Track Record Shipping Standout Apps

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Vision Insurance
Dental Insurance
401(k) Match

Full job description

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.

SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next.

SR. MOBILE IOS ENGINEER

We're seeking an exceptional iOS engineer to join a small, high-impact team building X for iOS, the app millions of people use every day to see what's happening and join the global town square. You’ll work in a fast paced environment and take ownership of constantly improving the app; from groundbreaking new features to micro optimizations.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Craft delightful, intuitive user experiences that redefine how people interact with the app

  • 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 designers, backend, android and web engineers

  • Own the quality of the products you build - including running a/b tests, finding issues, and proactively making improvements

  • Be proactive in finding ways to improve the app - from user feedback and from your own daily experience on the app

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Experience in Swift and UIKit

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

  • Deep expertise in the Apple ecosystem and related development tools

  • 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 SpaceXSI—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

  • 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 UI’s

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

  • Built high-throughput integrations with APIs 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

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

$200,000 - $375,000 USD

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXSI, 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. SpaceXSI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

How this job compares

Set against the 465 open Mobile Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$200–375K/yr
  • California median$160–245K/yr98 salary ranges
  • US median$147–238K/yr276 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $288K, is 44% above the California median midpoint ($200K) — in the top quarter of Mobile Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 130 open Mobile Engineer jobs in California and 465 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
Mobile Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 4 to 5 years (409 postings).
Education
47 of the 465 open Mobile Engineer jobs (10%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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