Camera Algorithms Engineer

iPhone is the most popular camera in the world, with billions of photos taken every year. The seamless integration of software and hardware has led to camera features like the Photonic Engine, Portrait mode, and Super-high-resolution photos which deliver magical experiences that surprise and delight our customers.

The GPU Algorithms team in Camera & Photos delivers amazing quality photos by combining state of the art computer vision, image processing, and machine learning. As an engineer on our team you'll develop and extend those software pipelines, working side-by-side with the world-class engineers who made iPhone's camera what it is today, and build new great camera capabilities spanning the universe of Apple devices. Whenever you see a "Shot on iPhone" billboard, you see our work; it could be your work too.

Description

If you consider yourself an engaging and highly-collaborative engineer with excellent communication skills, and are comfortable in a dynamic environment, we have a rewarding opportunity for you. We're looking for a strong software engineer to help implement and optimize deep neural networks with GPU image processing algorithms using Metal. In this role, you will work closely with research and frameworks teams on integration of vision and computational photography algorithms in a performance- and memory-sensitive environment. You will then feed this experience back to the hardware architecture team to help drive future SoC designs.

Preferred Qualifications

Thrive in a collaborative team building software together

Excellent verbal and written communication

Focus on details that are meaningful to our customers

Minimum Qualifications

Strong programming skills, especially in Objective-C, C++, Metal, or CUDA

Experience with Unix/Linux, preferably macOS or iOS

Proficient with debugging techniques, preferably on embedded mobile platforms

Familiar with image processing concepts and algorithms

Skilled with performance and memory optimization

MS/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

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