Staff Media Applications Engineer, Audio & Media Technologies

Apple • San Diego, CA

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About The Position

The Media Applications Engineering team within MGCT builds the system-level media user experiences across Apple's platforms - including system media playback UIs, media applications and frameworks such as AVKit. Our frameworks and APIs provide the building blocks for developing rich media user experiences across Apple's ecosystem, powering capabilities such as media playback, editing, routing, capture, and system media UX integrations in apps like Safari, TV, Photos, Music, FaceTime, and iMovie, as well as many third-party applications across all of Apple’s platforms. We are looking for a Staff Engineer with a strong technical background, excellent communication and leadership skills, and deep experience in the media, framework development, API design and UI engineering domains to help us build the next generation of media experiences across Apple's products. The Media Applications Engineering team is looking for a talented and motivated engineer to help lead the design and implementation of the AVKit framework, system media UX and media application APIs across Apple's products. You will work cross-functionally with a wide range of design and engineering teams to develop new features and APIs for adoption by Apple teams internally and third-party developers alike. You will take technical ownership across key areas of the team's work, collaborating closely with engineering and the design teams to deliver polished, high-quality system media experiences that reach billions of customers across all Apple platforms.

Requirements

• 10+ years of programming experience, preferably in Swift, Objective-C or C
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Demonstrated Technical or managerial leadership experience
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills
• BS or MS in CS/CE or equivalent practical experience

Nice To Haves

• Deep knowledge of Operating System design and concepts
• Proficiency developing with SwiftUI, Cocoa or other application frameworks
• Expertise in triaging and resolving complex bugs.
• Excellent understanding of optimization and performance issues across OS software layers

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of the AVKit framework, system media UX and media application APIs across Apple's products.
• Work cross-functionally with a wide range of design and engineering teams to develop new features and APIs for adoption by Apple teams internally and third-party developers alike.
• Take technical ownership across key areas of the team's work.
• Collaborate closely with engineering and the design teams to deliver polished, high-quality system media experiences that reach billions of customers across all Apple platforms.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior