Apple

Embedded Quality Engineering Manager - Camera

Apple$150K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS degree in a relevant field and at least 10 years of industry experience.
  • Minimum of 6 years in quality or test engineering with 2+ years in a leadership role.
  • Proficient in defining and executing test strategies for embedded firmware or drivers.
  • Experienced in building test automation frameworks using Python or similar languages.
  • Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests using Git.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and mentor a team of engineers, steering technical direction and career development.
  • Develop and execute camera and ISP quality test strategies, ensuring comprehensive coverage of all relevant areas.
  • Write and maintain automation code, and lead the team in test execution and tools development.
  • Present test results and quality metrics to stakeholders, translating technical findings into actionable insights.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish quality standards and enhance automated testing in CI/CD.
  • Drive recruitment and onboarding processes to build a capable engineering team.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness packages.
  • Flexible work hours to promote work-life balance.
  • Career development opportunities focusing on skill enhancement.
  • Collaboration with industry-leading professionals and teams.
  • Access to advanced technology and resources to drive innovation.
Full Job Description
The ideal candidate is a hands-on, engineering manager comfortable leading a high-performing team while remaining technically engaged in the work itself. In this role, you will manage a team of engineers responsible for qualifying camera/ISP firmware and drivers, while also personally contributing to automation development, test execution, and technical problem-solving. You thrive in cross-functional environments, partnering closely with firmware engineers, driver teams, architects, project managers, and QA teams across Apple to define what a high-quality camera experience looks like on our platforms.

Description

- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of engineers, setting technical direction and supporting individual career development

- Own the camera and ISP quality test strategy, including the development, maintenance, and execution of test plans covering functionality, performance, power, stability, and image quality

- Write and maintain automation code in Python, execute test plans directly, and provide technical leadership on tooling alongside the team

- Present test results, quality metrics, and risk assessments to senior leadership and partner teams, translating technical findings into actionable recommendations

- Partner with firmware engineers, driver teams, architects, and engineering program managers to define quality standards and expand automated test coverage integrated into CI/CD pipelines

- Recruit, onboard, and develop engineering talent capable of tackling embedded camera quality challenges

Minimum Qualifications

BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience

6+ years of experience in quality or test engineering, including 2+ years leading or managing engineers

6+ years of experience defining and executing test strategy for embedded firmware, drivers, or system software

6+ years of experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks in Python or a comparable scripting language, working in macOS or Linux command-line environments

Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using Git and embedded build systems

Experience testing hardware and backend integration points on embedded devices

Preferred Qualifications

Experience validating camera or ISP firmware, including working knowledge of the ISP pipeline, auto-exposure, auto-focus, auto-white-balance, video formats, and color spaces

Experience growing and developing engineers on a technical team, including hiring, onboarding, and performance coaching

Experience diagnosing and triaging complex firmware defects using logs, traces, and instrumented builds

Experience presenting quality metrics and risk assessments to senior stakeholders and driving decisions from the results

Experience shipping high-volume consumer hardware products

Experience performing image quality evaluation using test charts, light boxes, or measurement equipment

Experience with pre-silicon validation or early hardware bring-up

Experience applying AI-assisted development and testing tools - including prompt construction for test authoring, log analysis, and debugging - to increase engineering throughput

Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to guide teams through ambiguous and complex technical challenges

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to explain complex problems clearly and succinctly

Passion to collaborate and iterate on ideas in a cross-functional environment

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
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