Silicon Architect, Camera Hardware

Summary
Do you love taking on big challenges that require exceptionally creative solutions. Do you deeply understand how an incredible camera experience should work? As part of our Camera Technologies group, you'll help design the innovative technology that allows each generation of Apple products to produce photos even more incredible than the last! You'll design and develop groundbreaking ideas for everything involved in our camera systems, from sensor to lens. You'll collaborate with teams across Apple to research, design, develop, test, and qualify camera hardware for Apple products. Together, we'll craft a magical photography experience that redefines what millions of customers can expect from their cameras!

The Camera Hardware Engineering group is responsible for the design, development, and innovation of camera hardware for all related Apple products. Our target is to deliver superior camera hardware to enable best-in-class camera user experience. We are looking for an enthusiastic, high energy individual who can help us with tomorrow's challenges. In this role, the candidate will drive the development of next-generation camera hardware and chipset architecture. This role requires broad EE, fundamental physics and signal processing skills, algorithm and FW/SW interactions. You will work with cross functional teams to model and define chipset architecture understanding key system level requirements, trade-offs, and optimization between different components on the system.



Description
- Work cross-functionally to defined and develop digital control, processing and functional capabilities for next generation camera sensors in support of innovative product features.
- Identify opportunities for advancement in camera systems aligned with emerging technologies and critical system constraints.
- Evaluate problem/solution space including system constraint discovery to identify creative architectural implementation approaches.
- Develop & drive chip level specifications through the implementation phase.
- Support bring-up and debug of initial silicon implementation including the development of optimized settings for key product level camera features.
- Represent new camera silicon in cross-functional forums in support of productization of sensor features across hardware, software and system, assessing feature and implementation tradeoffs.
- Conduct hands-on analysis including data-path/algorithm, performance and power trade-offs to help define and refine our camera sensors.
- Participate and drive the advancement of our architectural exploration/development methodologies.

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