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Systems Engineer - Camera & Edit, Apple Reference Image

Apple· Software and Services
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Cupertino, CA$184.7k - $324.8kFull-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Systems Engineer to own key parts of the architecture and integration across the stack for Apple Reference Image, spanning sensor-level signing, on-device RAW capture pipelines, and cloud-based development in Private Cloud Compute (PCC). Focuses on security, cryptography, imaging workflows, and cross-functional coordination across hardware, cloud, and application behavior to ensure secure, coherent, and shippable system.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to and help maintain the systems architecture for Reference Image, spanning sensor-level signing, on-device RAW capture pipelines, and cloud-based development in PCC.
  • Contribute to the design and implementation of cryptographic key rotation, certificate lifecycle management, and revocation frameworks.
  • Work closely with Security and Privacy teams to threat-model end-to-end media authenticity workflows, evaluating cryptographic integrity, data privacy, and downstream non-destructive edit handling.
  • Help evaluate and advance standard and extended image container formats to support secure provenance and authenticity metadata.
  • Coordinate with PCC/Cloud infrastructure teams on specific integration points to ensure the signing and certificate infrastructure scales and meets the security bar.
  • Represent your work stream's technical tradeoffs in cross-functional forums (Photos, Camera Capture, ISP/hardware, QA, Privacy, Legal, Marketing), proactively identifying and resolving cross-team technical dependencies and blockers.
  • Contribute to scoping and planning for future hardware generations under the direction of the DRI.

Qualifications

  • BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, and 5+ years of industry experience
  • Working knowledge of cryptographic signing and verification: certificates, secure boot, key management, and revocation
  • Comfort working closely with Security and Privacy teams
  • Ability to work with many stakeholder teams (hardware, platform software, cloud, privacy, legal, QA) on ambiguous, changing requirements, and to keep the DRI informed of key tradeoffs and risks
  • Strong communication skills. You can explain deep technical tradeoffs clearly to engineers and to non-engineers such as Legal, Marketing, and Support.

Skills

Required:Cryptographic signing and verificationImage and media pipelinesDistributed cloud infrastructureThreat modeling

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation eligibility
  • Apple shareholder opportunities through discretionary employee stock programs
  • discretionary restricted stock unit awards
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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