As a Cartography & Display Tools Engineer on the Apple Maps team, you will build cartography pipeline, visualization tools, and authoring environments that leverage Apple's map rendering engine. Through partnerships with many other Apple teams along with Carto and Tools teams, your work will contribute to the next generation of Apple Maps and other Apple ecosystems.
Responsibilities
Build internal visualization and authoring tools that expose and extend Apple's map rendering engine capabilities
Develop style editors, layer inspectors, and real-time preview tools for cartographers, designers, production teams, and marketing stakeholders
Create tools for visual debugging, render state inspection, and shader visualization
Enhance cartographic style compiler and optimize map data pipelines
Prototype and validate new rendering capabilities in close partnership with the core Rendering Engine team, translating engine features into intuitive tool interfaces
Expose rendering parameters - lighting, materials, LOD, and tile styling - through intuitive tool interfaces
Engage regularly with cartographers, designers, and production teams to understand requests and gather feature requirements
Translate diverse user needs into actionable technical specifications
Champion tool adoption through documentation, training, and user advocacy
Drive continuous improvement of tools based on user feedback and evolving creative workflows
Build tooling for geospatial data ingestion, transformation, and tile generation
Work with vector tiles, GeoJSON, and Protobuf formats
Automate map content validation within CI/CD pipelines
Requirements
Familiarity with MSL shader development and GPU architecture
Experience with MapKit, Apple Maps, or similar mapping SDKs
Understanding of cartographic principles and geospatial data formats
Background in real-time 3D rendering or game engine tooling
Knowledge of domain specific language (DSL), spatial data formats, SQLite, Bison/Lex parsers
Experience translating complex rendering concepts into accessible tool interfaces for non-engineering users
BS or MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or GIS with 5 years of experience
Strong proficiency in C++, Python, and Swift
Experience with Metal, OpenGL, or Vulkan rendering APIs
Experience building developer-facing or content creator tools
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills - ability to work across engineering, design, and production teams
Pay & Benefits
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
Additional Information
We are looking for a Cartography & Display Tools Engineer to join Apple Maps. This role will empower you to build creative and innovative cartography and visualization solutions which will contribute to Apple's overall Maps and other ecosystems.
Your work will directly shape how millions of users experience Maps across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and CarPlay.
Apple · Cupertino, CA