Image Quality Engineer and Lab Specialist

At Glass Imaging, we're on a mission to revolutionize how people capture images. We are looking for an Image Quality Engineer / Lab Specialist, to be based in our Los Altos CA office, to help us enhance the visual performance of our products, working on the practical side of image collection, organization, testing and analysis. If you have a deep love for photography and videography and are eager to create the next generation of imaging, join us in shaping the future of our camera technologies.

Role Description

As an Image Quality and Lab Specialist at Glass Imaging, you will be instrumental in testing and refining our camera algorithms. Your role will involve:

• Participating in rigorous quality assessments of new features and algorithms, both in laboratory settings and real-world environments.
• Developing image evaluation workflows, processes and documentation to measure the progress of image processing over time and across platforms.
• Engaging actively in the evaluation and assisting with development of core image processing methods.
• Providing impactful feedback directly to our engineering teams based on your evaluations.
• Manage image data collection labs and work closely with the machine learning engineers to generate and organize new datasets.
• You will be a vital member of a dynamic, collaborative team that thrives in an energetic and fast-paced startup environment.
• You will work from our office in Los Altos, CA

Key Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Art, or Film
• Experience in photography or videography, with a keen artistic and technical eye.
• Practical skills in photo and video editing software such as Lightroom, Photoshop, or similar tools.
• Experience programming in Python
• Able to technically analyze image quality from test captures, assess artifacts, compare and contrast typical degradations, and effectively rank large sets of captures. 
• Possess a strong grasp of historical and future trends in image capture and processing
• Proficient understanding of traditional camera pipelines and digital imaging processes, including HDRimage fusion, and low light imaging
• Experience with camera lab equipment, lighting, etc., and familiarity with standard camera system operations (metering/exposure control, focus, framing, alignment) in a testing environment.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams. Ability to create presentations and bug reports, succinctly analyze and summarize issues with different camera systems and algorithms, compare and contrast details in image sets

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to conduct photographic field tests with fixed and dynamic scenes, test charts and real-world edge case testing and analysis. Developed protocols for efficient data collection
• Understanding of typical camera ISP blocks 3A, AWB, noise reduction, sharpening etc.); experience with tuning of camera ISP pipelines
• Understanding of human visual perceptioncolor science, optics and camera testing methods
• Scripting with Python, Bash, Linux/OSX command line utilities etc. for automation of metadata processing, file organization and naming, format conversion etc. and basic data analysis
• Experience with simple Python image processing libraries eg for automating image pre-processing
• Experience with mobile app development (iOS / Android)
• Experience with microcontrollers, interfacing with Raspberry Pi for lab automation
• Familiarity with fundamentals of digital signal & image processingcomputer graphics, computer vision, machine learning or computational photography

Why Glass Imaging?

Join us at Glass Imaging, where you can be part of a team that values innovation, creativity, and the pursuit of excellence. We offer the excitement and flexibility of a startup with the opportunity to make a significant impact in the imaging industry. Let's create something amazing together!

If you are ready to contribute to a team that pushes the boundaries of imaging technology, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to become a part of our journey at Glass Imaging.

Background on Glass Imaging:

Founded by former Apple Engineers who brought you Portrait Mode and other iPhone camera features, Glass Imaging is building the future of smartphone photography that delivers astonishing image quality. Glass Imaging has both software-only (AI based) and software+hardware (AI plus custom optical design) solutions to improve smartphone camera quality. 

On the software only side, our edge AI processing algorithms can replace the front end of a traditional camera ISP pipeline to correct the optical defects of lenses, perform joint demosaicing, deconvolution, denoising, and super-resolution, and run on a phone’s GPU, Neural Engine or similar, to give ultra-detailed high fidelity images in near-real-time.

On the software+hardware side, Glass's innovative camera architecture combines a new type of lens with state-of-the-art AI algorithms to form an image on a large image sensor while keeping the overall thickness of the camera module thin enough to fit in any smartphone, and deliver DSLR quality results. 

We are a well funded VC backed seed-stage startup with great benefits (including stock options, competitive pay, 401k, and health insurance), a small (but growing) and friendly team. We are all passionate about photography and hope you are too! We strongly prefer applicants based in or able to relocate to Bay Area, though remote/hybrid may be possible in the right circumstances. www.glass-imaging.com