Senior AI Product Studio / Mobile Engineering Team (iOS + AI + Computer Vision)

Senior AI Product Studio / Mobile Engineering Team (iOS + AI + Computer Vision) We are looking for an experienced product studio or senior engineering team to design and build an AI-first consumer iOS application. Please note: We are intentionally keeping the product concept confidential at this stage. An NDA will be required before sharing the full product specification. This is not a simple CRUD app or business application. The product combines large-scale personal media processing, artificial intelligence, computer vision and a premium consumer experience. What we’re looking for We are seeking a team with proven experience building polished, consumer-facing AI applications. Ideally your team includes expertise in: * Senior iOS Engineering (Swift / SwiftUI) * AI / Machine Learning Engineering * Computer Vision * Backend Engineering * Product Design (UX/UI) * Technical Architecture * Cloud Infrastructure * QA & Performance Optimisation Required Technical Experience Mobile Development * Swift * SwiftUI * Apple Photos Framework * iOS background processing * Large local data handling * Performance optimisation * Offline-first architecture * Memory management * Battery optimisation Artificial Intelligence Experience integrating and architecting AI-powered products, including: * Large Language Models * Vision Language Models * Multimodal AI * Image understanding * Embeddings * Semantic search * Recommendation systems * Prompt engineering * AI orchestration * AI cost optimisation Computer Vision Experience with: * Image classification * Object detection * Scene understanding * OCR * Face detection / clustering * Image similarity * Feature extraction * Media analysis pipelines Backend Experience designing scalable architectures using technologies such as: * Python * Node.js * FastAPI * PostgreSQL * Vector databases * Redis * Serverless architectures * REST APIs * Event-driven systems Cloud Experience with one or more: * AWS * Google Cloud * Azure Including: * Storage * Media processing * Queue systems * AI pipelines * Monitoring * Security * Cost optimisation Media Processing Strong experience with: * Image processing * Video generation * Video rendering * Media pipelines * Compression * Export workflows * Background rendering Product Design We are looking for product designers who have shipped elegant consumer applications. Experience with: * Figma * Design systems * Motion design * Micro-interactions * Premium mobile UX * Onboarding optimisation Important Experience Please apply only if you have previously built products involving several of the following: * AI-powered consumer applications * Photo or video applications * Camera or gallery integrations * Large media libraries * Social or creator tools * Personalisation engines * Recommendation systems * Content generation * High-performance iOS applications What we’re looking for in a partner We’re not simply hiring developers. We’re looking for a long-term product partner who can challenge ideas, contribute to architecture decisions and help shape a world-class product. You should be comfortable discussing: * Product architecture * Scalability * AI strategy * Privacy-first design * Performance * User experience * Technical trade-offs Nice to Have * Experience with Apple Intelligence or on-device AI * Experience with Core ML * Experience with Vision Framework * Experience with AVFoundation * Experience with Metal * Experience building AI-native products * Experience optimising applications handling very large personal datasets Application Requirements Please include: 1. Examples of AI-powered consumer apps you’ve built. 2. Your role in those projects. 3. Links to live App Store applications. 4. Technologies used. 5. Team structure. 6. Approximate team size. 7. Preferred engagement model. 8. Time zone. 9. Availability. Please also answer the following: * What is the most technically challenging AI consumer product you’ve worked on? * How would you approach building an application that processes a very large personal media library while maintaining excellent performance and privacy? * What parts of such a system would you keep on-device versus in the cloud? * How do you typically structure AI pipelines for scale and cost efficiency? We are looking for senior professionals with strong opinions, excellent communication skills and a passion for building category-defining consumer products.