Apple is inventing new audio experiences on newer platforms such as Vision Pro while continuing to add new innovative features and improve quality of existing platforms such as AirPods, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, HomePods, and Mac. The team plays a vital role in the audio stack across all of Apple’s operating systems and helps define how a customer experiences audio across Apple’s ecosystem.
Requirements
- Experience in and a deep understanding of audio stacks and audio pipelines
- Understanding of the audio stack of embedded systems
Responsibilities
- help design and building architectural platforms that hold up over time
- work with Design and other engineering partners and recommend behavioral policies based on hardware and software capabilities and limitations
- manage projects, mentor engineers, and work closely with your peers and leaders to build the future of Apple's audio and media roadmap
- track audio events on the system such as a user placing AirPods in their ears while playing media on iPhone speaker and automatically route audio to the AirPods via Bluetooth
- route audio to the HomePod via AirPlay 2
- define how a customer experiences audio across Apple’s ecosystem
- improve quality by increasing the audio responsiveness for the past several years with a pipeline of ideas to continue improving the stack in the future
Other
- manager who can be both an effective manager and an effective technical lead
- manage a mid-sized team of varying experiences
- 4-5 years of managing mid-sized teams in fast-paced environments
- Great understanding of intuitive user experiences
- This posting is not for a specific job opening and by submitting your resume you are expressing interest in being contacted about this type of role at Apple in the future.
