Media Playback Software Engineer

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The Audio and Media Technologies Group (AMT) provides the media foundation across all of Apple’s innovative products. The CoreMedia engineering team within AMT is responsible for implementing software services around audiovisual media. This includes local media playback, video-on-demand and live streaming of multimedia content. Our media engine is used across Apple products such as Safari, TV, Photos, Music, Videos, FaceTime, iMovie on iOS, macOS and VisionOS as well as 3rd party applications. Our team is looking for an engineer who can help enhance our video playback pipeline by developing technology that powers real-time media playback features on all operating system platforms that Apple supports: iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS and visionOS. You’ll architect and develop core software that is incorporated in products and services across Apple. We are looking for a focused, meticulous engineer to develop code and work with other teams to get it coordinated and launched to our customers. This is an outstanding opportunity to be involved in something new from the beginning. It’s meaningful, fun, and exciting. It’s what makes us Apple. If you are ready for the challenge, we want to meet you!

Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent You have knowledge of C

Experienced in key multimedia technologies such as DRM, FairPlay Streaming Familiarity with SoC bringup and validation Seasoned at media pipeline problem solving and debugging skills Experience using the CoreFoundation, AVFoundation and/or CoreMedia frameworks or equivalent technologies is a plus

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