Display Image Processing Algorithms Engineer, Platform Architecture
Apple
IT
Cupertino, CA, USA
USD 147,400-272,100 / year + Equity
Posted on Nov 18, 2025
Do you love working on state-of-the-art technologies? Are you forward-thinking and love solving technological and architectural challenges? At Apple, our Platform Architecture team features a collaborative and hands-on environment that cultivates engineering perfection, creativity, and innovation! In this highly visible role, you will work with display and SoC architects, SoC design and verification teams, display technology and software teams to support the development of SoC display architectures across various Apple products. Join this team and you’ll collaborate with engineers across Apple to develop algorithms and architectures that help build the seamless experiences we are known for worldwide! In this role, you will be developing state-of-the-art algorithms and architectures for displays on various Apple products.
As a Display Image Processing Algorithms Engineer, you are responsible for the design of algorithms and architectures for the display sub-system of Apple’s application processor chip (System on a Chip, or SOC).
- Develop and evaluate best-in-class image, video and display processing algorithms in Matlab/PythonC/C++
- Perform subjective and objective quality evaluations
- Work with chip architecture, silicon design/verification, display engineering and software teams to map algorithms into well-defined architectures that may be implemented in software and/or hardware
- Evaluate tradeoffs for image quality, power, performance, area and compute
- Generate architecture test vectors for hardware/software validation
- Develop tools that may be useful for image and video quality assessment
- Bachelor’s degree
- Experience prototyping algorithms in Matlab, Python or C/C++
- Experience with digital signal, image or video processing
- MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science and 3+ years of relevant industry experience
- Ability to be a good problem solver and show willingness to learn new concepts and develop skills in hardware architecture and modeling
- Experience with application of digital signal, image/video processing to displays
- Ability to abstract various image and video processing problems mathematically and develop new algorithms/architectures that are competitive with the state-of-the-art
- Ability to take features and algorithms from concept to shipping products
- Understanding of aspects of algorithms related to hardware architecture
- Effective interpersonal skills and ability to work across groups
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
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