About this role
Apple is a leading technology company known for its innovative products, including the iPhone, which has revolutionized photography. The Aesthetics Engineer will leverage technical production experience and expertise in photography to develop new features for mobile photography, ensuring the highest caliber visual aesthetics while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee the overall health, growth, and day-to-day technical operations of the Aesthetics Science Look Development function for Apple Camera and Photos
- Proactively identify and champion the development of necessary internal tools to achieve target stylization techniques aligned with subjective studies' results of visual trends, customer behaviors, and user preferences
- Rigorously test and tune complex, early-stage prototype software. Proactively identify algorithmic drawbacks, debug visual artifacts, and meticulously isolate which specific controls or parameters are responsible for unexpected behaviors
- Manage look development operations from beginning to end, including scaled file management, creative brief requirements, evaluation standards tracking, iterative protocol development and establishing and upholding look development refinement plans and schedule
- Apply rigorous look development standards and contemporary photographic knowledge to the Aesthetics Science discipline
- Maintain subject matter expertise in the complex preference space of different photographic renderings, including individual differences in preferences and cultural/historical/social trends in photography
- Expand the team’s ability to generate best-in-class visual aesthetics, working with cross-functional engineering partners to build the appropriate software tools to control hardware and software pipelines
- Inform the design of surveys to understand user perspectives and behaviors about photography and photo editing across diverse groups and cultures and over time