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Silicon Architect, Camera Hardware

Yesterday Cupertino, CA

As a Silicon Architect for the Camera Hardware team, you will work cross-functionally to define and develop digital control, processing, and functional capabilities for next-generation camera sensors in support of innovative product features. You will identify opportunities for advancement in camera systems aligned with emerging technologies and critical system constraints.

Description

Your role will be to evaluate the problem/solution space, including system constraint discovery, to identify creative architectural implementation approaches. You will develop & drive chip-level specifications through the implementation phase and support bring-up and debug of initial silicon implementation, including the development of optimized settings for key product-level camera features.

Additionally, you will represent new camera silicon in cross-functional forums in support of the productization of sensor features across hardware, software, and system teams. You will assess feature and implementation tradeoffs, including conducting hands-on analysis of data-path/algorithms, performance, and power trade-offs to help define and refine our camera sensors and participate in and drive the advancement of our architectural exploration/development methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications

Master's degree or PhD in EE, CE, or CS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience.

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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 in algorithm development and signal processing data-path design.

Experience in Matlab, C, Python, or other programming/scripting languages.

Experience in neural network processing hardware architectures.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills and solid collaboration and leadership skills.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science

Experience with hardware architecture and digital design principles.

Experience leading the development of new features on image sensing devices or SoC/mixed-signal designs

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Client-provided location(s): Cupertino, CA
Job ID: apple-200610970-0836_rxr-658
Employment Type: OTHER
Posted: 2025-11-10T19:05:24

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Parental Benefits

      • Work Flexibility

        • Office Life and Perks

          • Vacation and Time Off

            • Financial and Retirement

              • Professional Development

                • Diversity and Inclusion

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