Custom Silicon Architect

Apple • Cupertino, CA

9d

About The Position

Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values
that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple
Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other’s ideas
stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make
something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better.
It’s the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires 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. We live in a mobile and device driven world where knowledge of the
physical world around us is needed. We rely on this knowledge to get around, to
learn about our environment and to enable spectacular new features for custom
applications. Apple is meeting those needs as robustly and as creatively as
possible and is interested in people who want to help meet that commitment. The
success we are striving will be the result of very skilled people working in an
environment which cultivates creativity, partnership, and thinking of old
problems in new ways. If that sounds like the kind of environment that you find
intriguing, then let's talk. These elements come together to make Apple an
amazing environment for motivated people to do the greatest work of their lives.
You will become part of a team that sets the standard in developing excellence,
creativity and innovation. Will you help us design the next generation of
revolutionary Apple products?

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees