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Apple Audio Production Engineer United States, California, Santa Ana 358848398
18.11.2024
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Description
You will join a team of technical and creative partners working on a wide variety of projects for Apple. In support of these efforts, you will exercise your previous audio production engineering expertise for initial system design, deployment, on-site user operation, and post-operational support of various audio production technologies used to enable immersive content creation. You will work closely with the production technology, R&D, and content teams to ensure the creative vision is well supported by groundbreaking technical solutions. As a primary technical resource for each event, you will be actively involved with the technical care & operation of the audio facilities in mobile OB units, flight packs, operations centers, and other media production systems in highly dynamic and time critical production environments. You will be expected to solve complex technological and creative workflow challenges in real time, while working closely with production staff to clearly communicate issues and offer solutions on the fly. This role will also serve as a domain authority and a savvy, hands-on technician. We are looking for someone to keep up on the latest and greatest in media production technology to engineer improvements to current workflow, bring up of R&D and test systems, as well as work with internal and external engineering teams and technology vendors to drive innovation in next generation media production capabilities.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years working in the following areas:
- Operating or architecting professional grade audio production systems for events in OB production trucks, flight packs, transmission operation centers, or other technical environments during high profile sports, music, or entertainment productions.
- Hands on operational experience and technical expertise working with 2110, AES67, Dante and other IP based audio production technology.
- Technical commissioning, end-user operation, and in-situ solving of audio production hardware, software and protocols typical of media production environments.
- Conducting quality control of all production elements in an end to end audio production workflow.
- Excellent solving skills while under time and resource constraints with strong prioritization and triage skills.
- Working in international, highly metropolitan, and underdeveloped locations as key technical production staff. This role may require *50% travel both domestically & internationally. It will be physically demanding at all times. Onsite work is required when not traveling.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience architecting, operating, or servicing audio facilities found in broadcast production facilities.
- Experience working with tools included but not limited to: audio consoles, intercom systems, DAW applications, media networking and routing tools, RF audio transmission, media encoders & transport mechanisms, monitoring & telemetry, fiber based A/V transport.
- Strong familiarity with SMPTE 2110 & AES67 audio and video workflows.
- Strong IT skills as applicable to typical media production engineering tasks - Layer 2 and Layer 3 IP networking and standards, IPv4 addressing, multicast routing, PTP, SNMP, and IGMP/PIM.
- Experience with ‘ground up’ system design and system integration.
- Experience in REMI (remote integration) based production environments.
- QC of media signals in a media production environment for noise, compression artifacts, sensor based issues, quantization errors, aliasing, audio/video sync, etc.
Pay & Benefits
- At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $150,000 and $225,500, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
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