As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll help drive the modernization of persistence systems that must handle multi-gigabyte projects with real-time responsiveness. You will be a technical contributor within the team while collaborating across Apple's creative applications ecosystem.
This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who thrives on solving complex problems at the intersection of high-performance computing and creative technology.
Responsibilities
Develop and enhance the data model, persistence infrastructure and shared frameworks used across Final Cut Pro applications.
Contribute to the migration of legacy Objective-C systems to modern Swift applying best practices for maintainability and testability.
Develop new capabilities using Swift structured concurrency and Grand Central Dispatch, ensuring thread safety and optimal performance.
Collaborate closely with product and platform teams to deliver foundational improvements that enable seamless workflows across applications.
Identify and resolve complex bottlenecks in multi-threaded, latency-sensitive environments processing large media files.
Write clean, testable, and well-documented code following modern architectural principles.
Participate in code reviews, design discussions and technical investigations while contributing to engineering excellence standards
Requirements
5+ years of experience programming in either C++ / Objective-C / Swift
Hands-on experience using Swift structured concurrency (async/await, Tasks and Actors) and developing APIs with seamless Objective-C interoperability.
Familiarity with media or graphics applications, video editing tools, or creative software workflows.
Understanding of Apple frameworks such as AVFoundation, Core Animation, AppKit/UIKit.
Experience working in large, legacy codebases with incremental modernization goals.
Exposure to Micro Services Architecture or Distributed Systems
Knowledge of data migration strategies and performance tuning for I/O-bound systems.
5+ years of experience in application or platform-level development, with a focus on persistence frameworks and system design.
Deep experience with Core Data or similar persistence technologies, including schema migrations and domain modeling.
Advanced understanding of concurrency, and memory management in modern Apple environments.
Proficiency with Apple's development toolchain, including Xcode, Instruments, and Interface Builder
Experience with unit testing, continuous integration, and engineering best practices.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical ideas clearly and work collaboratively in a multi-functional team.
BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Pay & Benefits
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
Additional Information
Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other's ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It's the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you'll do more than join something - you'll add something.
Join the Final Cut Pro engineering team - Apple's flagship professional video editing suite used by major Hollywood studios and millions of creators worldwide- and drive the technical evolution of core data infrastructure that enables professional creative workflows.
Apple · Austin, TX