Apple Seeking Lead Camera Engineer for Future (Not 2nd-Gen) iPhone

by Jody Mitoma on May 27, 2008 at 8:22 pm

It was noticed that there is a job entry within the jobs section of the Apple website which is entitled “Lead Camera Design Engineer - iPhone”.

Here is what the listing reads:

Duties include research into both current and future camera technologies, evaluation of proposed solutions, executive presentation of current and future options, working with suppliers to customize modules, working with both product design and electrical engineering to physically and electrically integrate the parts, tuning the solution for optimal image quality, and design of production line testing setups.

Travel to both Apple and suppliers’ facilities will be required for production bring up.

The applicant should be familiar with megapixel CMOS image sensor technology, lens selection and qualification, and implementation of camera systems in mobile products, and have expert knowledge of imaging algorithms (auto-exposure, auto white balance, etc). Experience with mobile communication products is an advantage.

Lets hope that this doesn’t mean we’ll be seeing the same crappy digital camera we saw in the first-gen iPhone in the upcoming second-generation iPhone.

Looks like we’ll be waiting until the third-generation iPhone (probably sometime in late 2009) before we see a decent camera within the product.

Have a look at the job listing, here.

(Source: Boy Genius Report)