RAW and Image Quality Software Engineer
Job Description
Summary
Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product and service we create results from us strengthening each other’s ideas. That happens because we believe we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. Our people’s diversity and their thinking inspire the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you’ll do more than join something — you’ll add something to your life and the lives of our users.
The Image RAW team focuses on providing the decoding, rendering, and editing foundation for RAW images across all of Apple’s innovative products, including iPhone, iPad, Mac OS, Apple TV, and Vision Pro. Our team’s underlying framework also enables third-party developers to create astonishing applications. We are passionate about photography and strive to build new innovative features that let users unleash their creativity in ways they never thought possible – we want to work with people with the same desire!
The Image RAW team focuses on providing the decoding, rendering, and editing foundation for RAW images across all of Apple’s innovative products, including iPhone, iPad, Mac OS, Apple TV, and Vision Pro. Our team’s underlying framework also enables third-party developers to create astonishing applications. We are passionate about photography and strive to build new innovative features that let users unleash their creativity in ways they never thought possible – we want to work with people with the same desire!
Description
We are looking for a software engineer to join the Image RAW team to help develop the next-generation imaging processing technologies on Apple platforms. The candidate must deeply understand and care about image quality and enjoy pixel-peeping inside images to tune noise, sharpness, and color. The candidate will develop new RAW image processing components and other imaging and graphics frameworks and will interface with 3rd parties DSLR vendors. You will work on small and large cross-functional projects and interface with other software and hardware engineering teams. If you have a passion for photography, enjoy tackling big problems, focus on getting every detail right, and build compelling and enriching user experiences, then this role is perfect for you!
Minimum Qualifications
- Familiarity with image file formats commonly used in RAW pipelines (such as JPEG, TIFF, RAW)
- Good understanding of image quality, including noise tuning, sharpening, and color
- Familiarity with Computer Vision technologies
- Strong C, C++, Objective-C, Swift, and scripting programming skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with common editing tools and workflows for images
- Good Experience with DSLR cameras
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills
- Desire to grow and develop in a fast-paced development team
- Familiarity with development/debugging tools (like Xcode, lldb, Instruments)
- Care about details and being pixel-perfect
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