Software Image Quality Engineer, Creativity Apps

Imagine what you could do here! The people here at Apple dont just build products we craft the kind of wonder thats revolutionized entire industries. Its the diversity of those people and their ideas that supports the innovation that runs through everything we do from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple and help us leave the world better than we found Creativity Apps team is looking for a software Image Quality Integrity Engineer with photos video editing background to contribute to the production of innovative tools for creative professionals video makers and visual storytellers. It requires a highly proactive individual with strong creative technical and analytic skills and passion for new technologies related to computer vision/on device machine learning.

In this role you will be responsible for planning designing maintaining and executing test cases with minimal direction. Your ability to free test without scripts and tools will be paramount. Report bugs with outstanding isolation and regression techniques will be the key to your success. This role requires balancing a wide variety of deliverables that will rely on your talent for managing priorities and communicating progress and risks effectively and systematically. Your ongoing curiosity and dedication to self-education in video technologies as well as new testing techniques is what will set you apart. You will be working closely with other team members to help coordinate multi-functional test efforts. You will be in continual dialogue with Engineering and Design as products evolve and you will need to have compassion for users so you can effectively advocate on their behalf. The ability to streamline processes for data collection and systematically parse large data sets will be a huge plus. n

2 years of proven experience as a professional photographer in a competitive industrynExperience with digital photography and video including a deep understanding of exposure settings white balance depth-of-field bokeh sharpening denoising and HDRnStrong background in subjective and objective image quality evaluation and color science conceptsnDemonstrated ability to design and conduct experiments iterating through parameters to optimize image and video qualitynProficiency in image editing softwarenExperience with objective and subjective image quality assessment techniquesnExperience in testing with GenAI Repair using AI/LLMs for Image/Video Quality Evaluations. nCompetency in applying photographic best practices and techniquesnFamiliarity with computational photography and machine learning conceptsnBachelors Degree or an equivalent of 4 years of relevant experience

Analytical methodical inquisitive and persistent problem solver committed to driving quality forwardnProficient at balancing multiple efforts simultaneously and meeting strict deadlinesnCan extract user scenarios from software feature descriptions and requirements to translate them into effective test plans and interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written)nAbility to abstract technical details and effectively communicate to audiences at different levelsniOS and macOS familiaritynUnderstanding of UX principals