Systems Engineer, Camera & Edit

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Cupertino, CA
Salary
$184,700–$324,800 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
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Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

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TL;DR · Systems Engineer, Camera & Edit

The Systems Engineer - Camera & Edit, Apple Reference Image joins a team building a system to provide cryptographic proof of photo authenticity. This role involves owning key parts of the architecture and integration across the stack, spanning sensor-level signing, on-device RAW capture pipelines, and cloud-based development in Private Cloud Compute. You will design and implement cryptographic key rotation, certificate lifecycle management, and revocation frameworks while threat-modeling end-to-end media authenticity workflows. The role requires expertise in cryptographic signing, secure boot, and certificate issuance. You will evaluate image container formats like DNG, JPEG, and HEIF to support secure provenance metadata. You must coordinate with hardware, platform software, and cloud infrastructure teams to ensure the signing infrastructure scales while meeting strict security and privacy requirements.

What does a Systems Engineer earn in California?

Median $191000 from 99 postings across 21 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Maintain the systems architecture for sensor-level signing, on-device RAW capture, and cloud-based processing.
  • Design and implement cryptographic key rotation, certificate lifecycle management, and revocation frameworks.
  • Threat-model end-to-end media authenticity workflows to ensure cryptographic integrity and data privacy.
  • Evaluate and advance image container formats to support secure provenance and authenticity metadata.
  • Coordinate with cloud infrastructure teams to ensure signing and certificate systems scale securely.
  • Resolve cross-team technical dependencies and blockers across hardware, software, and privacy workstreams.
  • Scope and plan technical requirements for future hardware generations.
  • Write code to fill functional gaps within the systems engineering team.

What we're looking for

  • BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of industry experience.
  • Working knowledge of cryptographic signing and verification, including certificates, secure boot, key management, and revocation.
  • Ability to work with multiple stakeholder teams on ambiguous requirements and communicate technical tradeoffs to both engineers and non-engineers.
  • Experience with image and media pipelines, including RAW processing, ISP behavior, and DNG, JPEG, and HEIF formats (preferred).
  • Experience with distributed cloud infrastructure and confidential compute environments (preferred).
  • Familiarity with trusted time stamping and international privacy and regulatory requirements (preferred).
  • Experience shipping flagship security features or building third-party applications using sensitive capabilities (preferred).

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