Software Image Quality Engineer
Job Description
Summary
Imagine what you could do here! The people here at Apple don’t just build products — we craft the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s 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 it. The 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.
Description
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.
Minimum Qualifications
- 2+ years of proven experience as a professional photographer in a competitive industry
- Experience with digital photography, video with a deep understanding of photography: Exposure settings, WB, depth-of-field, bokeh, sharpening, denoising, HDR, etc.
- Understanding of subjective/objective image quality evaluation, and color science concepts
- Demonstrated ability to develop a testing methodology to gather input on subjective image/video quality changes
- Previous experience designing and conducting experiments, iterating through various parameters to optimize image/video quality
- Competency in applying photographic best practices and techniques
- Proficient with Image editing software
- Bachelor\'s Degree or an equivalent of 2 plus years relevant experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Analytical, methodical, inquisitive and persistent problem solver committed to driving quality forward
- Proficient at balancing multiple efforts simultaneously and meeting strict deadlines
- Can extract user scenarios from software feature descriptions and requirements to translate them into effective test plans and cases
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written)
- Ability to abstract technical details and effectively communicate to audiences at different levels
- iOS and macOS familiarity
- Understanding of UX principals
- QA Engineer experience is highly desired
- Have some understanding of computational photography and machine learning
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