Media Engineer – Apple Jobs

Job Type: Media Engineer from home
Location: California work from home
Company: Apple

Position Description:

You will be in charge of adding support for the next generation of advanced media formats to our stack as a streaming media formats engineer. You will be involved in the development of features, accompanying tools, system design, performance analysis, a/v-sync, and algorithm optimization for the streaming media framework. Your ingenuity will be used to create protocols, implementations, and services that provide our clients with the greatest and most up-to-date multimedia experiences. This will allow you to hone your systems-level programming skills and gain a better understanding of new media formats. To be successful in this profession, you must be adaptable and capable of thriving in a fast-paced atmosphere.

Education and Work Experience

• Additional Prerequisites BS or MS in CS/CE or equivalent
• It’s nice to have, but it’s not required:
• Expertise in multi-threaded development
• C++, Objective-C, or Swift object-oriented programming skills are required.
• It would be advantageous to be familiar with existing audio, visual, and caption format standards (MPEG-2 TS, MP4, WebM, CEA-608, WebVTT, etc)
• Understanding of streaming media protocols such as HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and DASH.
• Extensive knowledge of AR/VR and immersive video streaming
• A thorough understanding of media codecs, formats, transports, and container protocols is required.