Senior Software Engineer, Streaming Media

Apple • Cupertino, CA

4h

About The Position

Apple's Media, Graphics, and Compute Technologies Group (MGC) is looking for a
creative and dedicated engineer to join our Streaming Media team. This team
delivers the technology that powers the media viewing and listening experiences
across our entire ecosystem for both 1st party (TV+, Apple Music, Sports) and
3rd party content streaming services (Disney, Netflix, HBO). We are looking for
a highly motivated senior software engineer to support us in the design and
development of our next generation of media streaming technologies. The role
offers an incredible opportunity to contribute in the stack that powers our
adaptive bit-rate engine across billion+ devices. To be successful, you should
be able to thrive in a dynamic, agile, multi-disciplinary, and hands-on
environment that values engineering excellence, creativity, and innovation.

As a Streaming Media Software Engineer, you will be responsible for developing
features in areas related to video streaming, web-based playback. You will
contribute to overall media systems design, tune adaptation algorithms, and
integrate ML models to build rich streaming features. You will also support our
tools and data analytics teams to leverage tools and data to drive improvements
in our player stack and collaborate closely with multi-functional teams to
ensure end to end bring up of new streaming features. In all, you will craft
protocols, implementations and services that bring the best and latest
multimedia experiences to all of our customers. The role offers an incredible
opportunity to learn from world class experts across multiple disciplines both
within Apple and in the industry.

Requirements

• Ability to understand end to end architectures and functional details of a complex system with multiple inter-dependencies
• Experience working with audio visual media
• Experience using LLMs in Software development
• Strong software development experience in C / C++ for multi-threaded/systems development
• Outstanding analytical, programming and debugging skills
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate and execute
• BS/MS in CS/CE or equivalent with 3-5 years of experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience in the field of video streaming, including knowledge of commonly used streaming protocols such as HLS, DASH, WebRTC, etc.
• Proficiency in Swift and/or Python
• Understanding of networking fundamentals
• Experience in ad delivery is a plus but not required
• Familiarity with low latency streaming technologies and associated challenges
• Demonstrated ability to work with large cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

• developing features in areas related to video streaming, web-based playback
• contribute to overall media systems design
• tune adaptation algorithms
• integrate ML models to build rich streaming features
• support our tools and data analytics teams to leverage tools and data to drive improvements in our player stack
• collaborate closely with multi-functional teams to ensure end to end bring up of new streaming features
• craft protocols, implementations and services that bring the best and latest multimedia experiences to all of our customers

What This Job Offers

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