Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Video Quality Systems

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Cupertino, CA
Salary
$181,100–$318,400 / yr
Posted
44 days ago

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Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

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TL;DR · Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Video Quality Systems

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on Apple’s Camera ISP Algorithm team, you will focus on developing innovative solutions for measuring perceived visual quality in videos at scale. Your primary responsibility involves designing and implementing a hybrid evaluation framework that combines large-scale subjective data with automated metrics to accurately assess video quality. You will characterize existing objective Video Quality Assessment (VQA) metrics against human baselines, develop context-aware methodologies to classify video content, and design new explainable metrics based on the principles of signal processing and human vision. This role requires expertise in machine learning, image/video quality assessment, statistical analysis, and algorithm architecture, with a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration to integrate your frameworks into engineering processes. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in psycho-visual experiments, knowledge of the human visual system, and proficiency in modern video processing pipelines and compression standards.

What you'll do

  • Design and oversee large-scale psycho-visual experiments for high-quality subjective video evaluation data.
  • Evaluate existing objective VQA metrics against human baselines to determine their correlation and operational limits.
  • Develop methodologies to classify video content and apply "world knowledge" to automated metric success or failure.
  • Design, tune, and validate new objective quality metrics based on HVS and mathematical first principles for explainability.
  • Integrate evaluation frameworks into fast, automated feedback loops guiding the engineering process.

What we're looking for

  • MS in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or related field with at least 10 years of industry experience.
  • Extensive experience in Image/Video Quality Assessment (IQA/VQA), image processing, and computational vision.
  • Strong background in statistical analysis, correlation methodologies, and data modeling.
  • Expertise in designing and implementing algorithm architectures for machine learning applications.
  • Experience developing explainable algorithms for image or video analysis based on human visual system principles.

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