Apple

Software Image Quality Engineer, Creativity Apps

Apple$110K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years as a professional photographer in a competitive industry
  • Deep understanding of digital photography and video techniques
  • Strong background in image quality evaluation and color science
  • Experience with image editing software
  • Familiarity with GenAI Repair tools and AI/LLMs for quality assessments
  • Basic knowledge of computational photography and machine learning concepts
  • Bachelor's Degree or 4+ years of relevant experience

Responsibilities

  • Plan and design test cases with minimal guidance
  • Execute tests without scripts and tools for comprehensive coverage
  • Report bugs with effective isolation and regression techniques
  • Manage priorities and communicate progress and risks effectively
  • Coordinate multi-functional testing efforts with team members
  • Engage in dialogue with Engineering and Design teams to advocate for users
  • Streamline data collection processes and analyze large datasets

Benefits

  • Opportunities for continuous professional development and self-education
  • Collaborative team environment with creative professionals
  • Access to innovative tools and technologies
  • Contributions to meaningful projects that impact visual storytelling
  • Focus on user-centered design and advocacy
Full Job Description
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 and video, including a deep understanding of exposure settings, white balance, depth-of-field, bokeh, sharpening, denoising, and HDR

Strong background in subjective and objective image quality evaluation and color science concepts

Demonstrated ability to design and conduct experiments, iterating through parameters to optimize image and video quality

Proficiency in image editing software

Experience with objective and subjective image quality assessment techniques

Experience in testing with GenAI Repair tools.

Experience using AI/LLMs for Image/Video Quality Evaluations.

Competency in applying photographic best practices and techniques

Familiarity with computational photography and machine learning concepts

Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent of 4+ years of 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

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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154,000 employees
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Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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