Embedded Firmware Engineer - ISP & Camera Pipeline

Apple Inc.; San Diego, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Employee stock programs

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Apple Inc. seeks an exceptional Embedded Firmware Engineer to drive camera technologies for Apple products.

You will develop low-level ISP firmware for advanced image processing pipelines and work across pre-silicon emulation to silicon bring-up with a fast-paced, highly collaborative team. Responsibilities include hardware validation, performance tuning for power and latency, and close collaboration with silicon designers to influence future camera capabilities.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience developing multi-threaded software within embedded RTOS environments.
• Strong proficiency in C and C++.

Responsibilities

• Develop low-level ISP firmware for sophisticated image processing pipelines running on Apple's latest system-on-chip designs.
• Drive ISP hardware validation, feature bring-up, and camera software stack integration on emulators during pre-silicon development and on silicon during initial bring-up.
• Identify and resolve system performance challenges including power consumption, memory utilization, latency, and timing jitter.
• Collaborate with silicon designers to debug hardware-firmware interactions and contribute to architecture decisions that shape future camera capabilities.

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field

Tools

Emulators

FPGA prototypes

Register-level programming

Job description

Apple Inc. seeks an exceptional Embedded Firmware Engineer to drive camera technologies for Apple products.

You will develop low-level ISP firmware for advanced image processing pipelines and work across pre-silicon emulation to silicon bring-up with a fast-paced, highly collaborative team. Responsibilities include hardware validation, performance tuning for power and latency, and close collaboration with silicon designers to influence future camera capabilities.