Camera and Photos - Image Quality Lab Engineer

Apple • Cupertino, CA

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About The Position

In this role you'll be a critical part of a fast-paced, collaborative team. You thrive in a high energy, time-constrained, multitasking environment. Your main responsibility is to maintain, run, and build the engineering lab. This shared workspace serves many purposes for various teams and is home to a lot of equipment, centered around capturing data to measure and validate image quality. You will be the single point-of-contact for the lab and responsible for ensuring the schedule, equipment, and roadmap meets the needs of the product development teams.

Requirements

• Experience managing site calendars, site access, and equipment life cycle.
• Knowledge of photographic imaging, lighting, and rigging lab equipment.
• Experience in Lab Organization (equipment logging, checkout, space planning, etc).
• Intermediate experience with measuring image and video quality in the lab, including experimental design, setup and capture automation.
• Independently able to construct and execute experiments in the lab using the scientific method with minimal input.
• Mechanical or mechatronics engineering skills to design and manufacture custom components.

Nice To Haves

• At least 2 years of hands-on experience in testing and measuring image and video quality in the lab.
• Experience with objective and subjective image quality evaluation, including color accuracy, noise reduction, HDR, tone mapping, and sharpness.
• Strong understanding of imaging systems, including camera sensors, optics, image signal processors, and computational photography techniques.
• MATLAB and Python programming for image processing, data manipulation, file management, or automation of lab experiments.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Photographic Sciences, Engineering (Electrical/Industrial/Mechanical or Mechatronics/Manufacturing).

Responsibilities

• Maintain, run, and build the engineering lab.
• Serve as the single point-of-contact for the lab.
• Ensure the schedule, equipment, and roadmap meets the needs of product development teams.
• Capture data to measure and validate image quality.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees