The Audio & Media Technologies (AMT) organization provides the audiovisual media foundation across all of Apple's innovative products, including iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro, HomePod, AppleTV, Apple Watch, as well as professional and consumer applications from Final Cut to Music, TV and iWork. AMT takes the media experience to the next level on the iOS, macOS, visionOS, tvOS, and watchOS platforms with technologies such as AVFoundation, CoreMedia, CoreAudio, Media Toolbox and Video Toolbox.
Our team is looking for an engineer who can contribute to core software modules responsible for Apple’s QuickTime Movie and MPEG-4 file format writing. These modules are used in many critical media playback and file authoring workflows, including camera capture, HLS segmentation and media authoring. This individual will also contribute to media pipeline development in areas of format reading, playback and export/transcode.
Description
We are looking for an engineer who has good understanding of media workflows & components and is passionate about developing expertise in media format reading and writing. The role requires excellent design and programming skills with special emphasis on writing robust, performant and reliable code. You will be an engineer that cares deeply about software quality and performance. You will help innovate, design, build and troubleshoot media formats for capture, playback and export workflows. You will collaborate with numerous cross-functional teams to understand requirements and devise well-structured and maintainable solutions.
Minimum Qualifications
2+ yrs of experience working as part of a software development team in C/C++
Understanding of multimedia file formats (QuickTime Movie, MPEG-4, MPEG-TS, etc.) and experience with video, audio, captions/subtitles and/or metadata container-level carriage technologies
Experience with real-time multithreaded programming systems
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent
Preferred Qualifications
Understanding of video and audio compression and delivery technologies
Skilled at media pipeline problem solving and debugging
Experienced in analyzing and optimizing software to improve performance and reduce power consumption
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Experienced in using CoreFoundation, AVFoundation or CoreMedia frameworks or equivalent technologies
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