Apple has posted two new job listings for Siri engineers, reports TheNextWeb, specifically looking for skilled developers to work on Siri’s conversation view.
What’s intriguing, however, is that one of the listings references the Siri API, suggesting that Apple may be preparing to allow third-party app integration into the service.
We are looking for an engineer to join the team that implements the UI for Siri. You will primarily be responsible for implementing the conversation view and its many different actions. This includes defining a system that enables a dialog to appear intuitive, a task that involves many subtle UI behaviors in a dynamic, complex system. You will have several clients of your code, so the ability to formulate and support a clear API is needed.
Apple currently has a closed Siri API available to Siri’s search clients – Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia, Yelp and others – but considering how useful third-party app support could be to Siri, it’s likely that a wide-scale Siri API is in the works.
This is all extremely speculative at this point, but the possibilities for the future of Siri are certainly exciting, with home automation and remote vehicle starting as a small sample of what could be in store.
