Software Engineering - Media

Summary

Posted: Sep 11, 2024

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number:200567586

Do you thrive on variety, collaboration, and facilitating solutions to hard software engineering challenges? Software Engineering - Media is a role focused on improving our media ecosystem. We collaborate with internal and external engineering teams on building new features, making modifications to existing features, and resolving blocking issues in the ecosystem. We may offer source code changes to improve their usage of features or behaviors on the platform.

Description

On the Developer Ecosystem Engineering team, engineers help analyze partners' products and recommend technical optimizations and standard methodologies to take advantage of our shifting technology space. We host developers for in-person sessions to unblock technical roadblocks and accelerate development. We serve as a resource for external partners and internal teams for advocating and implementing changes to improve the ecosystem, often focused on new, in-development technologies. We may transition between multiple platforms as external team challenges shift, addressing problems on iOS or macOS variants of our partners' products. The daily role may consist of reverse engineering, debugging, helping other engineering teams prioritize Media-relevant work, and creating content to help our audiences understand gaps and drive resolution of those gaps.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/MS, preferably in Computer Science or related experience
• Computer science fundamentals, specifically with operating systems, and understanding how parts of a computer fit together to create a platform and experience
• Programming fundamentals, including pointers and memory management, with languages like C, Objective-C, or C++
• Excellent interpersonal skills due to the high level of interaction with internal and external engineering teams & management

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge or an interest in learning about the requirements of developers in the Media space, e.g., encode/decode, codec trade-offs, HDR, etc.
• Experience in macOS or iOS programming at the application, framework, or audio/video stack a plus

Pay & Benefits

• At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. The base pay range for this role is between $143,100 and $264,200, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
• Apple employees also have the opportunity to become Apple shareholders through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• You'll also receive benefits including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and reimbursement for certain educational expenses related to advancing your career at Apple.
• This role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.

More

• Apple is an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

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