WebKit Web Compatibility Engineer

San Diego, California


Employer: Apple
Industry: Software and Services
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time

Summary
Apple is where individual imaginations come together, contributing to the values that lead to extraordinary work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other's ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It's the diversity of our people and their thinking that encourages the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you'll do more than join something - you'll add something.

The Safari and WebKit team is responsible for Safari, the world's fastest web browser. WebKit is also the name of the Open Source iOS and macOS framework that powers Mail, iBooks, and many other applications. As a WebKit Web Compatibility Engineer you will be responsible for expanding WebKit's support for new web standards features, as well as addressing compatibility and performance issues in Safari and WebKit.



Description
You will be responsible for expanding WebKit's support for important new web technologies, as well as identifying and addressing cases where Safari fails to properly display and execute web content. Specific job duties will include:

- Implementing new web engine features.

- Reading and understanding web standards specifications.

- Creating demos and test cases for new and existing web technologies.

- Analyzing web pages to create reduced test cases for compatibility problems.

- Narrowing down bugs reported in WebKit applications.

- Interacting with developers on the Open Source WebKit project.

- Interacting with the web standards community, including other browser vendors.

Compatibility with web specifications is an important part of the web platform, where content is meant to work properly across multiple operating systems and browsers. You can help Apple provide the highest quality experience interacting with web content across our entire product line.




Created: 2024-08-22
Reference: 200563614
Country: United States
State: California
City: San Diego
ZIP: 92109

About Apple

Founded in: 1976
Number of Employees: 154000