Camera Silicon Architect at Apple in undefined

Do you love crafting creative solutions to highly sophisticated challenges? Do you deeply understand how an incredible camera experience should work? As part of the Camera Silicon Architecture team, you’ll help design innovative technology that allows each generation of Apple products to produce photos even more incredible than the last. You’ll collaborate with teams across Apple to explore, define and drive the development of next-generation camera silicon chipset architectures. The Camera Silicon Architecture team develops innovative silicon solutions and technologies for Apple’s products, including the iPhone, iPad, MacBooks, Vision Pro and more. The key goal of the team is to continue to push the envelope of performance and capabilities of the world’s most popular cameras. New challenges arise every day that require the sharp problem-solving skills of versatile and thoughtful individuals. The team features a collaborative and hands-on environment that fosters engineering excellence, creativity, and innovation.

Description

As a Camera Silicon Architect, you are at the heart of defining the future of imaging for Apple products. Your core responsibility lies in pioneering novel architectures, image signal processing algorithms and control algorithms that power Apple’s Image Sensor chips and the broader Camera System. This involves not just conceptualizing new features, but deeply understanding the intricate interplay between optics, sensor technology, silicon design, and software. You will tackle complex, multi-disciplinary challenges, translating ambitious product goals into concrete silicon requirements and algorithmic solutions that push the boundaries of image quality and user experience. You will explore emerging technologies, analyze system-level constraints, and drive architectural decisions from early concept phases all the way through to silicon bring-up and productization.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors Degree in EE, CE or CS Experience with hardware architecture and digital design principles Experience leading development of novel features on image sensing devices or complex SoC/mixed-signal designs

Preferred Qualifications

MS/PhD Degree in EE, CE or CS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience Experience leading technical initiatives across distributed multi-disciplinary teams Experience with silicon bring up and debug, hardware-software system integration and final productization Experience with modeling and simulating device/system designs to assess power/performance/area/bandwidth/latency tradeoffs Experience developing algorithms and signal processing data-path design Experience with Matlab, C, Python or other programming/scripting languages Experience communicating and presenting to management leadership and collaborating with technical cross-functional partners

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