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Embedded QA Engineer - Camera, ISP FW & Driver

Apple Inc
  • Cupertino, CA
    7 days ago

    Job Description

    We are looking for an experienced and outcome-driven Embedded Quality Engineer to help deliver a best-in-class camera solution for iOS products. You will qualify ISP firmware and camera drivers across every hardware platform we ship, ensuring millions of Apple customers get a camera experience that just works - through every new sensor, every new feature, and every commit that touches the stack. This is a fast-paced, high-performing team, and the work spans new hardware bring-up, new feature enablement, and continuous regression testing on every ISP code change. In this role, you will:

    Own regression testing for every ISP code change across multiple projects and active trains - discover regressions, triage failures, and catch issues before they land in the main codebase. Drive parity feature validation on new hardware platforms - independently own re-validation of existing camera/ISP features against new sensors, proving nothing regressed. Design test plans and test cases for new camera/ISP features - functionality, performance, power, stability, and image quality, and validate them end-to-end as they're enabled, in parallel with development. Build and maintain automated tests so test coverage keeps pace as hardware and feature count grow. Collaborate with development and cross-functional QA teams to triage, diagnose, and debug issues to root cause; file high-quality, reproducible radars. Identify coverage gaps and flag risks and trends to leadership.BS and a minimum of 3 years relevant industry experience. 3+ years of QA experience testing embedded system products. Proficiency in Python or a similar scripting language. Experience developing system and feature level test plans and test cases. Experience developing automated tests for embedded systems or mobile devices. Hands-on experience leveraging AI-based tools to build and automate workflows.Understanding of camera technologies, the ISP pipeline, 3A, video formats, and color space. Experience with quality test gating in a large, multi-repo embedded codebase. Experience designing, developing, or maintaining test suites using Pytest or other framework. Experience setting up, integrating, or maintaining continuous integration and deployment pipelines using tools such as Jenkins. Comfort working across many concurrent trains/hardware platforms at once. Strong verbal and interpersonal skills, especially triaging with dev teams. Experience on successful, large-volume consumer products.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationCupertino, CA
    IndustryComputer/IT Services
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1976
    Websitehttps://www.apple.com/jobs

    About Company

    We bring amazing people together to make amazing things happen.

    We’re a diverse collection of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, as well as with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. And the same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.

    About Apple

    There’s a place here for every kind of brilliant. Everyone here is an innovator, or an innovator-to-be, no matter what your team or your role. So bring your passion, courage, and original thinking and get ready to share it, because every new product, service, or feature we invent is the result of people working together to make each others’ ideas stronger. Innovation at this level depends on people who represent the variety of the human experience and inspire us with their own fresh perspectives. Together, we’ll do amazing work that can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own. Learn more about working at Apple.

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