Custom Silicon Architect
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Description
The Camera Hardware Engineering group is responsible for the design, development, and innovation of camera hardware for all related Apple products. Apple's Camera Hardware Engineering group is seeking a highly skilled and innovative Lead/Architect with a strong focus on system architecture design to help us revolutionize camera technology across our entire product line. In this role, you will contribute to the development of next-generation camera hardware and drive electro-mechanical system definition with focus on custom silicon. You will work on new camera module concepts by understanding the problems, exploring the solutions space, proposing a path to production by suggesting new hardware configurations, modifying silicon embedded firmware or proposing and executing new custom silicon ICs. As a lead and architect it is expected that you individually contribute with in-depth understanding from system level, to chip architecture, down to block level design details. You will have broad EE, fundamental physics and signal processing skills and offers a mixture of system architecture, chip level circuit design and board level circuit design expertises.","responsibilities":"Work with cross-functional teams including mechanical, optical, firmware, product/test and camera systems engineers to define silicon based solutions for the next generation of products.
Provide IC specific and broad electrical engineering support to camera HW and cross-functional teams.
Individually and independently analyze, understand, identify gaps, propose optimized solutions for early and somewhat undefined camera systems.
Review and provide guidance for board level design including associated components, signals and power supply.
Preferred Qualifications
10+ years of relevant industry experience.
Experience with the development and analysis of experiments to root-cause challenging electrical problems.
Solid understanding of embedded FW/host SW interaction.
Understanding of board level design/constraints.
Sharp problem-solving skills and critical thinking.
Strong commitment to going above and beyond to get work done at the highest quality.
Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
Experience in the fields of autofocus and optical stabilizations (AF/OIS) drive, sensing and controls.
Minimum Qualifications
Experience working with complex systems design for high volume products, preferably in the camera or sensing hardware spaces.
Experience distilling silicon components requirements from system level understanding, including partitioning between HW/FW/SW.
Experience with complex analog/mixed signal IC development.
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