Apple

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

$175K–$308K

San Diego Metro Area, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026

Experience: 8+ years of software development experience.

About the job

Build and maintain applications, infrastructure, tooling, and automation that help Apple’s Streaming Media Ecosystem team deliver reliable, high-quality streaming features and improve engineering productivity.

What you'll do

Build and maintain integrated toolchains, applications, and automation frameworks for platform operations and streaming feature quality and delivery.
Design reliable, scalable services and platforms; investigate and resolve complex application and infrastructure issues.
Partner with teams to automate inefficient workflows, including by building GenAI-powered tools and agentic workflows.

What they ask for

Strong proficiency in Python or a similar language.
Demonstrated expertise debugging complex systems.
Experience architecting and implementing large-scale distributed systems.

Nice to have

Proficiency in multiple programming languages; familiarity with application performance profiling and benchmarking.
Hands-on experience building applications or developer tools using GenAI technologies such as LLM APIs, AI agents, RAG, or MCP.

Pay

USD $175,000–$308,500 base salary

Tools

Python, LLM APIs, AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), Model Context Protocol (MCP)

AI focus

Design GenAI-powered tooling and agentic workflows to improve engineering productivity and automate quality and delivery processes.

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