Production Services Streaming Engineer, Employee Experience & Productivity
Description For Production Services Streaming Engineer, Employee Experience & Productivity
Apple is seeking an expert broadcast systems engineer to join their team and play a critical role in engineering projects and supporting live broadcast events. As a Subject Matter Expert or lead in broadcasting and streaming technologies, you'll work on various aspects of their broadcasting and live streaming platform, including production, encoding, transcoding, packing, delivery, playback, and analytics.
The IS&T Broadcast Services team needs an expert in broadcasting and live streaming solutions to contribute to their next-generation platform. This role involves designing, developing, testing, and supporting scalable broadcasting solutions while working with multiple internal teams. You'll be responsible for Production and Post-Production support, automation of complex workflows, and maintaining documentation.
Key responsibilities include resolving technical issues, providing setup assistance for broadcast control room equipment, and staying current with industry trends. The role requires flexibility for 24x7 emergency response and may involve limited travel. You'll be working with various technologies including AWS media services, video/audio codecs, streaming protocols, and security implementations.
The ideal candidate brings 4+ years of broadcast engineering experience, strong technical knowledge of streaming protocols and media technologies, and excellent communication skills. Experience with AWS, programming languages like Python and JavaScript, and understanding of complex broadcasting workflows involving multi-vendor technologies is highly valued.
This position offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge broadcast technology while contributing to Apple's internal communications and event streaming infrastructure. You'll be part of a team that values innovation, technical excellence, and collaborative problem-solving, working in an environment where individual imaginations gather together to create impactful solutions.
Responsibilities For Production Services Streaming Engineer, Employee Experience & Productivity
- Design, develop, test and support scalable and reliable broadcasting and live streaming solutions
- Work with multiple internal and cross functional teams to understand systems, workflows, and issues
- Provide support for Production, Post-Production, Transmission activities and tasks
- Work on automation of complex workflows
- Update documentation and standard operating procedures
- Provide setup and configuration assistance for broadcast control room production equipment
- Work within a 24x7 emergency response as needed
- Drive continuous improvement by optimizing technical infrastructure and workflows
Requirements For Production Services Streaming Engineer, Employee Experience & Productivity
- 4+ years of broadcast and streaming engineering and operations experience
- Experience with broadcasting and live streaming protocols such as HLS, RTMP, etc
- BS/BA in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent
- Experience with video and audio codecs
- Experience with streaming media security and DRM
- Deep understanding of AWS media services
- Experience with APIs and programming languages such as Python and JavaScript
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
