Production Design Engineer

Location: Cupertino, CA- hybrid schedule
Duration: 12 month contract- 40 hours/weekly
Pay Rate: $57.55-$62.55/hour

Role Overview:
We’re looking for a creative and resourceful Production Design Engineer with 3-5 years of experience to support the lead engineer on a large internal tools project. This person will assist in implementing new features, testing existing code, and fixing bugs.

The project involves building internal extensions to a suite of established, consumer-facing macOS applications. These extensions are designed to streamline the content creation workflows of our creative design and production teams.

The applications being extended have a mature and complex codebase, written predominantly in Objective-C (~90%). All new development is being done in Swift, with SwiftUI used for the user interface layer.

Success in this role will require deep knowledge of macOS development and strong experience working across both Objective-C and Swift, including handling interoperability between the two. You should be comfortable navigating a large legacy codebase while contributing modern Swift code that integrates cleanly and safely.

A significant portion of this role will focus on testing new and existing features, as well as performing quick-turnaround bug fixes as the need arises.

Qualifications:

• Extensive macOS development experience with SwiftUI and AppKit
• Deep knowledge of Swift and Objective-C interoperability, with hands-on experience working across both languages
• Ability to extend and integrate with existing codebases while minimizing impact to legacy code
• Proven experience contributing to large-scale, complex projects
• Experience collaborating with creative and production teams, understanding their workflows and needs
• Expert-level proficiency with Keynote, Numbers, and Pages
• Exceptional debugging skills with a focus on writing clean, maintainable, and high-quality code
• Self-motivated and capable of independently troubleshooting technical and process-related issues
• Detail-oriented, organized, and thoughtful in the treatment of bugs, issue tracking, and QA processes
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and effectively to non-technical coworkers in language they can understand
• Strong listening skills with the ability to interpret requests from creative and production teams, asking thoughtful clarifying questions when needed
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to investigate, debug, and triage complex issues independently or collaboratively