# iOS Engineer, Applied AI at Citizen

- Company: Citizen
- What the company does: Citizen helps you stay safe & informed, by providing instant notifications and live broadcasts of reported crimes and incidents near you. Backed by Sequoia and Lux.
- Company website: https://citizen.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York City
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $185K to $245K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-24
- Apply by: 2026-11-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/citizen/fe42bcc5-036a-4a3e-9eaa-8d4227b98ac9
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/citizen-ios-engineer-applied-ai/

## About the role

I wrote the first version of this app in Swift and I still open Xcode most weeks. For years the gap between an idea and a build on my phone was measured in sprints. Now I build with agents and it is measured in hours, and the engineers here who work the same way ship more in a week than a squad used to ship in a quarter. The iOS app is the thing millions of people hold in their hand on the worst day of their year.

## What they're looking for

- You have shipped and owned a consumer iOS app used by millions, and you can point to what you personally built in it
- You are deep in Swift and the Apple platform: Swift 6 concurrency, networking, background execution, location, push, camera and video. You know where iOS will fight you and how to win
- You have worked in The Composable Architecture or a comparable unidirectional architecture at scale, and in a modular SPM codebase, and you have opinions about both
- You have run a release: CI, TestFlight, phased rollout, crash triage, hotfixes. You know what a bad Thursday looks like
- You have worked on real-time or live media and you know what latency, jitter, and a bad network do to a user's trust
- You build with AI already. You have replaced whole parts of your own workflow with agents, you have opinions about where they fail, and you are paying attention to what is next. This is not a nice-to-have. It is the job

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