Apple
Senior OS Engineer, Media Playback - Media, Graphics & Compute Technologies
$185K–$278K
San Francisco Bay Area, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of programming experience.
- Education
- BS or MS in CS/CE or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Designs and ships media playback UI features and APIs for Apple platforms, collaborating across teams and improving performance throughout the media playback stack.
What you'll do
- Design and implement AVKit media playback UI features and public APIs for Apple and third-party developers.
- Collaborate with Human Interface and engineering teams on consistent system media UI across platforms.
- Debug cross-layer issues and optimize the media playback pipeline.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of programming experience, preferably in Objective-C and Swift
- Deep knowledge of Operating System design and concepts
- Excellent collaboration skills and ability to explain advanced concepts clearly
- Proficiency developing with Cocoa or other application frameworks
Nice to have
- Expertise in triaging and resolving complex bugs
- Excellent understanding of optimization and performance issues across OS software layers
Pay
$184,700 and $277,600 USD base salary
Tools
Objective-C, Swift, Cocoa, AVKit
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