Image Sensor Architect - Camera Hardware

$175,800 - $312,200/Yr

Apple - Cupertino, CA

Full-time - Senior

Cupertino, CA

10,001+ employees

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Image Sensor Architect role at Apple involves designing and developing innovative camera technologies that enhance the photography experience across Apple products. This position requires collaboration with various teams to create groundbreaking camera systems, focusing on digital control and processing hardware architectures for novel camera sensors. The role emphasizes problem-solving and creativity to meet the evolving challenges in camera hardware development.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop digital control and processing hardware architectures for novel camera sensors and systems.
• Evaluate problem space to determine key system requirements.
• Identify creative architectural implementation approaches through solution space evaluation.
• Develop and drive chip-level architecture specifications through the implementation phase.
• Participate in system integration tasks with multi-disciplinary teams.

Requirements

• Proven experience in digital design with chip or system level architecture development.
• Demonstrated background in novel or high-performance image sensing devices/systems.
• Experience with high performance and low power image sensor architecture design.
• Knowledge of image sensor manufacturing technology and performance metrics.
• Familiarity with general industry trends and technical challenges for high performance and low power imaging sensors.
• Multi-disciplinary understanding of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Physics principles.
• Proficient in Matlab/SystemC/SysML or other high-level modeling languages.
• Ability to derive design and verification requirements from specifications and drive compliance to requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, along with solid collaboration and leadership skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in algorithm development and signal processing data-path design or Neural Network processing.
• Experience in secure hardware development and hardening against physical attacks.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• Retirement benefits
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Restricted stock unit awards
• Tuition reimbursement for formal education
• Discounted products and free services
• Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
• Relocation assistance