Software Engineer, Internal Tools - Media, Graphics & Compute Tech

Summary

The Media, Graphics & Compute Technologies (MGC) organization serves as the foundation for audio and video media across Apple’s diverse range of innovative products, including iPhones, HomePods, AppleTVs, Apple Watches, iPads, Macs, Vision Pros, and professional and consumer applications such as Final Cut, Music, TV, and iWork. MGC elevates the media experience on iOS, tvOS, watchOS, macOS, and visionOS platforms through technologies like AVFoundation, CoreMedia, CoreAudio, Media Toolbox, and Video Toolbox.

This position is with the Streaming Media Ecosystem (SME) team, which delivers a comprehensive set of streaming technologies, ensuring seamless media experiences for Apple and third-party services. The services SME supports include Apple TV, Apple Music, Disney Plus, Netflix, and HBO. This role focuses on designing and developing applications, services, and platform infrastructure that support SME’s products and features. This work plays a critical role in ensuring product quality by building the tooling and automation frameworks that enable rapid, reliable delivery of world-class streaming experiences.

Description

We’re looking for a meticulous, focused, and self-motivated individual, passionate about automating workflows, including through GenAI and agentic tooling. You’ll partner with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities to improve their efficiency.
You’ll join a team of engineers building scalable applications that help a large engineering organization ship higher-quality software, faster.
You’ll design reliable, highly available applications, services, and platforms, with automation as the guiding goal.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain a well-integrated toolchain that streamlines platform operations and reduces operational overhead
Develop and maintain applications with a focus on quality, scalability, and maintainability
Investigate and resolve complex issues spanning application logic and underlying infrastructure
Build tooling and automation frameworks that ensure the quality and rapid, reliable delivery of SME’s streaming features
Partner with cross-functional teams to identify and automate inefficient workflows
Design and build GenAI-powered tooling and agentic workflows that boost engineering productivity and automate quality and delivery processes across the organization

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years of software development experience, with strong proficiency in Python or a similar language
Demonstrated expertise in debugging complex systems
Experience architecting and implementing large-scale distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications

Proficiency in multiple programming languages
Familiarity with application performance profiling and benchmarking
Hands-on experience building applications or developer tooling that leverage GenAI technologies, such as LLM APIs, AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or the Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Pay & Benefits — San Diego Metro Area, California, United States

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $175,000 and $308,500, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Application Deadline

Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.