CareerPlan

Prototyping Engineer

Cupertino, United States of AmericaFull-time2026-10-01 → 2026-11-10

Core

Architect simulated testing grounds for next-gen Apple hardware by blending visual effects, cinematography, and AI-accelerated workflows to explore world models and redefine camera capabilities.

Role type

Senior IC prototyping engineer (spatial computing & generative AI)

Builds

High-fidelity simulations for hardware design, synthetic 3D datasets for ML research, and actionable physical camera specifications

Domain

Consumer electronics, spatial computing, generative AI, computational photography

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

real-time computer graphics, novel view synthesis, optical physics, sensor data interpretation, AI coding assistants, automation, multimodal sensor data processing, motion capture pipelines, synthetic dataset generation

Preferred skills

foundation model development, bridging software-hardware gaps, Apple ecosystem development (Swift, Metal, RealityKit, visionOS), communicating technical tradeoffs across teams