Manager, Software Image Quality, Creativity Apps

Apple • Cupertino, CA

8h

About The Position

The Creativity Apps team is looking for a Software Image Quality Manager to
lead, mentor, and grow a team of Image Quality Engineers fostering a culture of
excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement. It requires a highly
proactive individual with strong creative, technical, and analytic skills, and a
passion for new technologies related to image/color science, computer
vision/on-device machine learning.

In this role, you will be responsible for planning, designing, maintaining, and
overseeing the evaluation and validation of AI and ML models used in photo and
video editing features, ensuring their accuracy, performance, and impact on
image/video quality. You will collaborate closely with engineering, product, and
design teams to understand feature requirements, identify potential quality
risks, and help mitigate them throughout the development lifecycle. Establish
and maintain objective and subjective image quality metrics and benchmarks.
Champion a quality-first culture across the organization, present quality
findings to product and leadership teams.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in a managerial or leadership capacity, managing a team.
• 5+ years of experience in imaging, video processing, or computational photography quality.
• Bachelor’s degree required in Computer Science, Image Processing, or a related subject area, or we may consider an equivalent industry experience.
• Prior experience in image quality evaluation and testing for photo and video applications.
• Strong understanding of digital image processing, color/image science, compression algorithms, and video codecs.
• Experience with AI/ML model evaluation and validation, particularly in computer vision or image manipulation contexts.
• Knowledge of HDR workflows and advanced color grading techniques.
• Experience with objective and subjective image quality assessment techniques.
• Proficiency with relevant QA tools and software testing methodologies.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of machine learning algorithms and their application in image processing.
• Familiarity with scripting languages (e.g., Python) for test automation and data analysis.
• iOS and macOS familiarity.
• Experience in implementing AIML editing features in photo and video editing applications.

Responsibilities

• Planning, designing, maintaining, and overseeing the evaluation and validation of AI and ML models used in photo and video editing features
• Ensuring accuracy, performance, and impact on image/video quality
• Collaborating with engineering, product, and design teams to understand feature requirements, identify potential quality risks, and help mitigate them throughout the development lifecycle
• Establishing and maintaining objective and subjective image quality metrics and benchmarks
• Championing a quality-first culture across the organization, present quality findings to product and leadership teams.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager