Cloud Media Engineer

Apple is a place where people come together to create amazing things. Each new product service or experience we develop is made stronger by our shared vision of making something wonderful and sharing it with the world which can really make a difference in peoples lives. Our diverse team and unique perspectives spark the innovation that fuels everything we do. When we include everyone we can achieve our best work. Here youll have the chance to contribute to something truly great.

Media is woven into the DNA of everything that makes Apple special. From the moment QuickTime brought movie trailers to the internet in the 1990s to the iPod putting a thousand songs in your pocket to the iPhone that redefined how a generation watches listens and connects Apple has always believed that the way people experience media should feel like magic. Today that legacy lives in every F1 race streamed live on Apple TV every song that starts playing with spatial audio and every immersive video created for Vision Pro. The technology behind those moments has never been more ambitious or more Cloud Media Engineering team needs a curious talented creative and motivated engineer to help design and implement the next generation of that technology cloud media systems and infrastructure that carry Apples media legacy forward. Help build the workflows and services that can power media creation and delivery across our services reaching billions of will work cross-functionally with a wide range of engineering design tooling and data analytics teams to develop new capabilities. You will provide technical ownership across key areas of the teams work driving improvements in our cloud media and launching new features that deliver industry-leading experiences to our customers. As an engineer on our team youll thrive in a fast-paced startup-like environment collaborating closely with a passionate team to achieve a shared mission your contributions will be instrumental in developing exciting new features that directly impact users. This role offers an incredible opportunity to learn from and collaborate with world-class experts across multiple disciplines both within Apple and across the broadcast and streaming Youll Donn Contribute to the design and development of cloud media tools and automated workflows that create ingest transcode and process media learning how these systems operate at Apple scale.n Explore and prototype optimizations across encoding pipelines and processing workflows and help investigate how metadata and ML models can enrich the media experience.n Support the operation of live streaming pipelines that deliver live sports news concerts and events across all Apple devices gaining hands-on experience with real-world broadcast infrastructure.n Work with video encoding tools like FFmpeg and modern codecs including AV1 and ProRes developing practical skills in media processing and quality optimization.n Learn and apply broadcast distribution technologies such as AES67 MPEG transport streams SRT packaging and Zixi under the guidance of experienced engineers.n Help deploy and maintain containerized media services using Docker and Apple Container building familiarity with scalable cloud deployment practices.n Collaborate closely with applications tooling and data analytics teams

Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent skills and work programming fundamentals with experience in one or more of: Swift Objective-C TypeScript Python or of Object-Oriented Programming principles and common software design with Apple platform frameworks Cocoa AVFoundation or the iOS/macOS SDK from coursework projects or exposure to UI development whether through frontend frameworks (React TypeScript) or native platform experience with or understanding of how APIs are structured and working knowledge of data structures algorithms and concurrent programming curious systematic approach to problem-solving comfortable digging into unfamiliar systems to find for quality and attention to detail in code testing and the end-user experience.

Video Encoding: Any exposure to FFmpeg AV1 or ProRes whether from personal projects coursework or prior Technologies: Awareness of video transport protocols such as HLS DASH SRT or Deployments: Introductory experience with AWS Kubernetes or Docker in any -Assisted Development: Familiarity with Claude Code or similar AI-assisted coding in adaptive bitrate streaming and how video players adapt quality in real about ML applications in media recommendations quality enhancement metadata background in broadcast audio/video production or digital media to independently explore and master new technologies as the media landscape evolves.