Mobile Engineer
Mobile Engineers at AI companies build native iOS or Android applications for products with consumer- or workforce-facing mobile surfaces. The day-to-day is mainstream mobile development: building and maintaining production applications, optimizing performance across memory, CPU, and battery, architecting modular and testable codebases, and shipping features through the platform-specific release cycles. AI-specific work—integrating remote model APIs, on-device inference, real-time generative experiences—is increasingly common as a feature-level concern, but the foundational role is recognizable as iOS or Android engineering. These engineers typically sit within product engineering teams, often as the only mobile specialists in fast-moving product organizations, collaborating with backend, design, and ML or research counterparts as the feature requires.
Measured across 36 of 36 open postings.
This role is advertised at one level, so a single figure for the role would describe none of them. Experience and pay are the midpoints for each level on its own.
| Level | Share | Median years | Median pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | 33%(12) | — | — |
A dash means too few postings stated it to report a midpoint at any level. Most companies do not publish a salary band, so pay is indicative rather than a market rate. 4 levels with fewer than 10 open postings are not shown.
“You use AI tools to investigate and deliver at greater scale.”
“turning ambiguous ideas into simple, intuitive user experiences as new AI capabilities emerge”
“Utilize Perplexity Computer and other Agentic coding tools to accelerate development.”
“Ship features that integrate real-time AI capabilities: streaming responses, voice input, tool invocations, and multimodal interactions.”
Requirements are a share of every open posting, so a role missing from this list is one where almost nobody asks. Work mode is different: many postings never say, so that figure counts only the ones that do.
Skills
What companies are looking for in this role.
Mobile application engineering
Systems performance optimization
Full-stack product engineering
Frontend interface engineering
Product and interaction design
Test automation and quality strategy
Design system development
Monitoring and observability
Backend and API engineering
Systems integration and APIs
Hardware and embedded systems
AI-native product design
Cross-functional collaboration
Mentoring and code review
Rapid prototyping and iteration
Technology
The tools and technologies that define this role.
Open Jobs
36 open Mobile Engineer jobs across 18 companies.
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