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We, at Turing, are looking for talented remote senior iOS engineers who will be responsible for developing high-end iOS applications for the latest Apple mobile devices. Get a chance to work with the leading Silicon Valley companies while accelerating your career.

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Job responsibilities

  • Design and develop advanced mobile applications for Apple’s iOS platform
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design and deliver advanced iOS app features
  • Ensure robustness, usability, reliability of code
  • Test, troubleshoot, and debug code to enhance and optimize app performance
  • Discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
  • Make sure to deliver projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, and iterative programming environment
  • Deploy and publish applications on App store

Minimum requirements

  • Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT (or equivalent experience)
  • At least 5+ years of iOS app development experience (rare exceptions for highly skilled developers)
  • Proficient knowledge of Objective-C, Swift, and Cocoa Touch
  • Working knowledge of Apple’s Xcode IDE
  • Strong knowledge of interface builder, Core animation, and OOP concepts
  • Proficiency in C and C-based libraries
  • Solid understanding of iOS app development landscape, architectures, trends and new technologies
  • Knowledge of Apple’s design principles and application interface guidelines
  • Profound experience with third-party libraries and APIs
  • Fluency in English language for effective communication
  • Ability to work full-time (40 hours/week) with a 4 hour overlap with US time zones

Preferred skills

  • Hands-on expertise in HTML, CSS, MySQL, and JavaScript
  • Familiarity with JSON, Git, VIPER, MVVM, MVC, and spatial reasoning
  • Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies
  • Experience in building and leading technical teams
  • Sound technical, analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Great interpersonal and organizational skills

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How to become a Senior iOS Engineer ?

Skills in mobile app development are in high demand. As more people utilize it, it is becoming increasingly crucial to select the most popular mobile technology. Given the popularity and demand for Apple's iPhone, iPad, and iPod, it's logical to conclude that iOS engineer jobs are a terrific alternative.

There are several employment opportunities in iOS development for both seasoned and entry-level professionals, with competitive pay and opportunities for progress. According to a new poll of mobile app developers performed by Vision Mobile, iOS is the best technology to invest your time and money in. Senior iOS engineer jobs are becoming increasingly popular as more people utilize the internet.

What is the scope for Senior iOS engineer?

While Android has a larger worldwide market share, Apple currently has 1 billion iPhones in use—all of which operate on iOS. As a result, the demand for iOS engineers who can design apps for these devices that are offered in the Apple App Store has risen dramatically in recent years. As of 2021, the App Store has 1.96 million apps, and mobile apps are predicted to produce more than $935 billion in sales by 2023. The typical smartphone user downloads and installs 10 applications per day and 30 apps per month. According to CIO magazine, mobile developers are among the top ten most in-demand tech occupations. App developer positions are expected to rise 22 percent between 2019 and 2029, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Senior iOS developer roles usually require dealing with larger and more complicated websites and technologies, as well as more layered stacks than previously. Rather than finding and hiring a large number of staff who are tightly specialized, many companies are giving Senior iOS engineers jobs who can work in numerous areas and do multiple duties. This not only saves money but also allows a single person to handle and comprehend all parts of a project, avoiding misunderstanding and information silos.

What are the roles and responsibilities of a Senior iOS engineer?

A Senior iOS engineer's job is to create, test, and refine apps for mobile devices running Apple's iOS operating system that are in line with their company's or client's goals and requirements. They must have a solid grasp of iOS and how it interacts with various Apple devices such as the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV, as well as the ability to tailor their apps to the needs of their company or customer.

Some of the roles and responsibilities that a Senior iOS engineer job must perform are as follows:

  • Drive technical, product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution-related initiatives.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with the engineering department and teams to put product and commercial strategy into action.
  • Create unique items and services that people would like.
  • Contribute to the whole development cycle, including technical design, development, testing, and so on, all the way up to product launch.
  • Examine code and design documentation, and put feedback on product requirements and mocks into action.
  • Guide and coach a team of smart and driven engineers as they improve in their careers.
  • Establish guidelines for improved development workflows and promote best practices.
  • Be a good learner if you want to develop your technical and non-technical skills.
  • In charge of creating and developing novel solutions to technology and commercial problems.
  • Work with business stakeholders to deliver features on time and on budget.
  • Encourage the usage of new technologies while continuing to improve and evolve our legacy codebase.
  • Collaboration with team members is required to develop our best practices and procedures.
  • Participate in code reviews, run automated tests, and help shape our technology strategy.

How to become a Senior iOS engineer?

To get a Senior iOS engineer job, you must have a solid grasp of various hard skills, including ideation, market research, basic design, and, most importantly, coding. Aside from that, you should be familiar with user testing, compliance, and submitting your app to the App Store. These challenging skills may be simple to learn, but they will require hard study. Furthermore, the best Full Stack iOS developer combines technical expertise with a wide range of soft skills. These may take more time to develop, but they may be useful in a number of industries. Here are six methods to assist you to acquire a Senior iOS engineer job –

  • Learn the basics of iOS programming.
  • Enroll in a training program for iOS developers.
  • Learn the fundamental programming languages.
  • Create your own project to hone your iOS development abilities.
  • Improve your soft skills.
  • Make an iOS developer portfolio to show off at work.

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Skills required to become a Senior iOS engineer

The first step is to gain the fundamental abilities that will enable you to secure a high-paying remote Senior iOS engineer job.

1. Swift

Swift is Apple's programming language designed exclusively for app development. This is the language that will be used for all future iOS development. So, you must be aware of it! Our experts admit that it isn't a "little" language, but you don't have to know everything to get a job as a junior iOS developer. What you must do is ensure that you are comfortable with:

  • Basic syntax
  • Optionals
  • Control Flow (If and Switch Statements)
  • Classes, inheritance & initialization
  • Error handling
  • Objective-C Interoperability

2. Spatial reasoning

Successful app developers must be able to conceive in 3-D and visualize the spatial relationships between items. Simply said, when designing interfaces for devices such as the iPhone, Apple Watch, or the forthcoming Apple TV, you must consider how consumers will interact with your program. So, you must do the following - Understand the many sorts of controls/inputs available (and popular) for the various platforms, and utilize the devices you're targeting so you can reason about them! While some people may be more naturally gifted in this area, be assured that it is an acquired talent that can be mastered with practice and by working on real-world tasks.

3. Design guidelines

Successful iOS applications are well-known and praised for being extremely user-friendly. This is due to the fact that these applications must comply to a specific set of design rules. The storage and display of data to the user are managed in very particular ways. You must be familiar with and comprehend these design patterns in order to create your own intuitive apps. As a result, if you pursue a career as an iOS developer through our iOS Developer Nanodegree programme, you will study important topics such as:

  • Swift is the programming language used to create iOS apps.
  • UIKit is Apple's front-end framework for creating sophisticated and speedy online interfaces.
  • Apple's Grand Central Dispatch and network demands (GCD)
  • Learn about basic persistence, the iOS File System, and the "sandbox."

4. Networking

To appreciate the significance of networking in app development, consider an app on your phone that does not communicate with the internet. Could you come up with one? Chances are you couldn't, or it took you a while to think of one, because practically every program we use communicates with the web in some manner. As a result, it's critical that you grasp how to send and receive data from the network. This is accomplished using a format known as JSON, which stands for JavaScript Object Notation. If you're not acquainted with the format, it may appear difficult, but it's a very standard format that's actually quite simple.

5. Core data

Here's what one of our Subject Matter Experts had to say about Core Data recently: "Learning Core Data is like working out: the first few days are agony, but after the second week, you can't believe you ever lived without it!" Core Data is, in essence, Apple's persistent framework. Consider how your data would be lost every time you used an app. This would be analogous to the early days of video games, when you had to complete Super Mario Brothers in a single run since you couldn't save your progress. The most significant foundation for storing data on Apple devices is Core Data.

6. Grand central dispatch

Grand Central Dispatch, sometimes abbreviated as GCD, is what lets you add "concurrency" to your programmes, allowing numerous processes to perform concurrently with ease. What is the significance of this? Our apps perform a lot at once: they get data from a network, show information on the screen, interpret user touch inputs, and so on. Running all of these things at once would place a tremendous load on the user's phone, causing it to either operate very slowly or crash.

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How to get remote Senior iOS engineer job?

What do an athlete and a developer have in common? To thrive in their area, they must practice effectively and regularly. They must also work hard enough to develop their talents over time. In this regard, there are two critical elements that developers must focus on in order for that growth to occur: the support of someone more experienced and successful in practice techniques while practicing, and the usage of more effective practice procedures.

Turing features the best remote Senior iOS engineer jobs that can help you achieve your iOS engineer professional objectives. Working with cutting-edge technology to solve complicated technical and business challenges can help you expand rapidly. Join a network of the world's most excellent developers to get full-time, long-term remote Senior iOS engineer jobs with greater pay and professional advancement.

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How much does Turing pay their remote Senior iOS engineers?

Each Senior iOS engineer at Turing is able to set their own rates. Turing, on the other hand, will propose a salary at which we are certain of finding you a successful and long-term position. Our recommendations are based on our analysis of market circumstances and client desire.

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We, at Turing, hire remote developers for over 100 skills like React/Node, Python, Angular, Swift, React Native, Android, Java, Rails, Golang, PHP, Vue, among several others. We also hire engineers based on tech roles and seniority.

Communication is crucial for success while working with American clients. We prefer candidates with a B1 level of English i.e. those who have the necessary fluency to communicate without effort with our clients and native speakers.

Currently, we have openings only for the developers because of the volume of job demands from our clients. But in the future, we might expand to other roles too. Do check out our careers page periodically to see if we could offer a position that suits your skills and experience.

Our unique differentiation lies in the combination of our core business model and values. To advance AGI, Turing offers temporary contract opportunities. Most AI Consultant contracts last up to 3 months, with the possibility of monthly extensions—subject to your interest, availability, and client demand—up to a maximum of 10 continuous months. For our Turing Intelligence business, we provide full-time, long-term project engagements.

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Annotator - STEM

About Turing:

Turing is one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems.

Turing helps customers in two ways: Working with the world’s leading AI labs to advance frontier model capabilities in thinking, reasoning, coding, agentic behavior, multimodality, multilinguality, STEM and frontier knowledge; and leveraging that work to build real-world AI systems that solve mission-critical priorities for companies.


About the Role:

Annotators are the core builders of SkillsBench. You will design and write AI evaluation tasks — structured challenges given to large language model (LLM) agents running inside automated environments. Each task you create tests whether an AI agent performs significantly better when given domain-specific knowledge 

skills versus without it. Your tasks directly feed into Turing's commercial AI evaluation pipeline, used by clients. 


What You Will Do:

Write clear, unambiguous task instructions that define exactly what an AI agent must produce, where to save it, and what rules to follow Create reference solutions that demonstrate the correct approach and pass all automated checks Write human-readable verifier descriptions listing every check the automated test suite will run Author domain-specific skill files that teach an AI agent the conventions, workflows, and edge cases relevant to the task — without leaking expected answers Ensure the no-skills variant of each task is identical to the with-skills variant except for the absence of skill files Work within the task structure (instruction, environment, solution, tests) and follow Turing's task quality standards 


Required: 

Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant technical or domain-specific field (Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Data Science, Linguistics, etc.)  Experience: 1–3 years in a domain where you have hands-on practical expertise (software development, financial analysis, document processing, data science, etc.)  


Must Have:  

Strong written English; ability to write precise, unambiguous instructions 

Genuine hands-on expertise in at least one of the SkillsBench domains (coding, finance, document generation, audio/ML, etc.) 

Ability to think from an AI agent's perspective — what would a model get wrong without guidance? 

Comfort reading and producing structured file outputs (JSON, DOCX, XLSX, Markdown)  


Nice to Have:  

Prior experience with LLM evaluation, prompt engineering, or AI benchmark design 

Familiarity with Python scripting Experience with Docker or containerised environments 

 

Domains : 

Power Systems & Control 

Cybersecurity 

Network & System Engineering 


Offer Details:

  • Commitments Required:  40 hours per week with overlap 4 hours with PST
  • Engagement type  : Contractor assignment(no medical/paid leave)
  • Duration of contract : 2 months; [expected start date is next week]
  • Location : India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Ghana, Bangladesh, Turkey, Mexico
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Automation Test Engineer

About Turing:

Turing is one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems.

Turing helps customers in two ways: Working with the world’s leading AI labs to advance frontier model capabilities in thinking, reasoning, coding, agentic behavior, multimodality, multilinguality, STEM and frontier knowledge; and leveraging that work to build real-world AI systems that solve mission-critical priorities for companies.
About the Role
Testers verify that each task's automated test suite works correctly. You run the reference solution inside a Docker container and confirm it scores 1.0 against the verifier. If it doesn't pass, you diagnose the failure, determine whether the issue lies in the solution, the verifier, or the environment, and escalate accordingly. Testers are the last checkpoint before a task is marked ready to ship.
What You Will Do
Execute reference solutions inside Docker containers and capture the output Run the pytest-based test suite against the solution output
Diagnose failures: distinguish between a broken solution, a misconfigured verifier, an environment issue, or a task design flaw
Report failures clearly to the Pod Lead or Annotator with enough detail to reproduce the issue Track test results in the shared tracker and flag tasks that are consistently failing or require environment changes
Required:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field  
5+ years in software QA, DevOps, backend development, or automated testing   Comfortable working in a Linux command-line environment Hands-on experience with Docker (building images, running containers, reading logs)
Ability to read and understand Python code and basic pytest output Systematic debugging mindset: 

Ability to isolate whether a failure is in the code, the config, or the environment  
Nice to Have:  
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and containerised test environments Experience with domain-specific libraries (e.g., pandas, openpyxl, pdfplumber, librosa, astropy) depending on batch assignment Understanding of how LLM evaluation pipelines work 

Offer Details:

  • Commitments Required:  40 hours per week with overlap 4 hours with PST
  • Engagement type  : Contractor assignment(no medical/paid leave)
  • Duration of contract : 2 months; [expected start date is next week]
  • Location : India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Ghana, Bangladesh, Turkey, Mexico

Evaluation Process (approximately 60 mins) :

  • 1 round of interviews (Round 1 - 60 min technical )
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