Silicon Architect - Camera Hardware (m/f/d)
Apple
SummaryPosted: Jan 27, 2025Role Number:200572597Do 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 team develops innovative camera solutions and technologies for Apple’s products, including the iPhone, iPad, MacBooks, and more! The key goal of the team is to enable the world’s best camera experience for our customers. 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!DescriptionDescription- 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 methodologiesMinimum QualificationsMinimum QualificationsBachelor of Science in EE, CE or CSKnowledgeable in hardware architecture and digital design principlesExperience leading development of novel features on image sensing devices or complex SoC/mixed-signal designsKey QualificationsKey QualificationsPreferred QualificationsPreferred QualificationsSenior level of relevant industry experienceAbility to drive and lead technical initiatives across distributed multi-disciplinary teamsDemonstrated background in silicon bring up and debug, hardware-software system integration and final productizationExperience with modeling and simulating device/system designs to assess power/performance/area/bandwidth/latency tradeoffsExperience in algorithm development and signal processing data-path designExperience in Matlab, C, Python or other programming/scripting languagesExperience in neural network processing hardware architecturesExcellent written and verbal communication skills and solid collaboration and leadership skillsEducation & ExperienceEducation & ExperienceAdditional RequirementsAdditional RequirementsMore
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