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At Apple, new insights have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Do you bring passion and dedication to your job? If so, we are looking for individuals like you. The Media, Graphics Compute Technologies team provides the audio, video, and graphics foundation across all of Apple's innovative products, including iPhone, iPod, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, iTunes, and macOS, as well as professional and consumer applications from Final Cut, Logic and iWork.\nDescription\nAs a Tools & Automation Engineer, you'll build the automated test infrastructure that safeguards the full portfolio of Apple Spatial Audio Format (ASAF) and Apple Positional Audio Codec (APAC) software deliverables: from audio plug-ins and SDKs that live inside third-party professional applications, to command line tools, to encoders that ship as part of Apple's operating systems, to applications deployed in live production environments. 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