Community and Content Engineer, Open Source Program Office (OSPO)

You produce beautiful technical artifacts. You write tutorials, develop clients, wire up GitHub Actions for contributor experience, and engage with community members in the spaces you helped to create. You understand open source communities from the inside and know what makes a good one. You understand that supporting maintainers in this new age of AI is extremely important. GenAI is a tool that you use to reduce the toil and focus on the community work.

Developer relations

* Driving awareness, discoverability, and adoption through documentation, integrations, and other engineering support in various ecosystems like cloud native
* Supporting contributors and internal teams as they understand, adopt, and engage with the project
* Manage and grow a content program, ensuring information is accurate, useful, and reflects the current state of Apple's open source.
* Coordinate with internal engineering teams to surface and communicate project updates; writing technical content independently is a significant plus.
* Content includes samples, examples, tutorials, blogs, READMEs, and more.


Contributor experience

* Design and build contributor workflows that reduce friction and help contributors succeed from their first interaction onward
* Build and maintain onboarding scripts, templates, and automation that make contributing to Apple's open source projects clear and repeatable
* Identify points in the contributor journey where people disengage and work with engineering partners to address them


Cross-functional coordination

* Partner across OSPO, engineering, legal, and external communities to keep community and content programs moving with clarity and accountability
* Build internal community around open source practice by connecting teams, sharing knowledge, and creating shared resources

Experience working within open source project communities in a mix of developer relations, developer experience, and technical writing.
Empathy for contributors and maintainers of all backgrounds and skill levels
Excellent written communication skills; demonstrated ability to write clearly for a technical audience
Ability to build lightweight tooling to support contributor workflows
Comfortable using genAI tools as part of how you work
Strong project management and prioritization skills; you turn ambiguity into a plan and a plan into results
Ability to coordinate across organizational boundaries and move programs forward without direct authority
2+ years working within open source project communities or ecosystems
2+ years of developer relations, technical writing, or content program work

Familiarity with Apple open source projects as a developer or contributor
Public speaking experience in open source or developer community settings
Comfort with GitHub at an operational level: Actions, issue triage, org management, and community health tooling
Experience developing or maintaining technical content
Familiarity with open source content tooling and publishing workflows
Experience auditing and improving contributor journeys for open source projects
Demonstrated examples of automation or tooling built to improve the contributor experience

Open source software is at the heart of Apple platforms and developer tools.

We are looking for an OSS Developer Ecosystem Engineer to join our passionate, collaborative, distributed team.

The Open Source Program Office (OSPO) focuses on enabling use, contributions, adoption, and release of open source software at Apple. We partner Apple-wide to support open source strategy and operations. You will work on some of Apple's most active open source projects helping early stage adopters, ecosystem builders, and contributors find their way in and feel supported. We assess needs and provide partnership to build solutions that grow ecosystems and communicate Apple's open source work to the world. If you are energized by building the content, community, and technical experiences that make open source projects tick, we would love to hear from you.

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $171,600 and $302,200, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits

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