iOS App Development Engineer

The Opportunity

Adobes Nextcam team is seeking a Software Development Engineer with training and/or experience in building smartphone apps for iOS to join our team in San Jose California. We are particularly interested in candidates who have experience developing optimizing and shipping camera photography graphics or image processing apps.

About our Team and Project Indigo

Nextcam is a relatively new team led by VP and Fellow Marc Levoy. Were part of the larger org responsible for Photoshop and Lightroom but we operate like a startup inside that org with significant agility and autonomy. As part of our portfolio we recently launched Project Indigo an experimental camera app for iPhone that combines computational photography and AI and that deliberately explores the boundaries of what is possible in a mobile camera. The app offers full manual controls a more natural (SLR-like) look and the highest image quality that computational photography can provide. It also introduces new photographic experiences that are not available in other camera apps. The app which is available for free on the App Store went viral after launch garnering millions of downloads and earning broad positive coverage in the tech press. Here is a blog about the app.

At present project Indigo is an experiment although a very successful one. Our goal is to turn it into an Adobe product. with regular releases of new features a broader OS footprint (Android comes later) and the best possible performance. Note the Whats next paragraphs at the end of the blog which enumerate some of the features we plan to add. To achieve these goals we are scaling up the team. Come help us build the future of mobile photography!

What will you work on

While you will have significant ownership in shaping your role within the team your responsibilities will broadly include API design (evolving existing components and architecting new ones) feature development performance optimization (at the OS algorithmic and GPU levels) debugging (both on-device and through unit testing) staying current with iOS platform developments reducing technical debt and contributing to overall UX improvements.

Required skills (you dont need to have every one of these skills)

Proficiency in Swift Objective-C and modern C
Experience with iOS app architectures and common design patterns (MVC/MVVM modularization)
Ability to write thread-safe code and design systems with concurrency in mind
Ability to write concise and well-documented code and unit tests
Experience building Swift UIs
Ability to debug and profile applications using Xcode and Instruments
Experience working with source control CI/DC pipelines and automated test harnesses
Experience shipping and maintaining production iOS applications
Enthusiasm for working with AI coding agents while maintaining high-quality

Nice to have

Experience with camera apps computational photography and/or modern AI
Computational photography or image processing experience
Camera Raw and Lightroom experience
GPU programming experience especially Metal
Experience integrating machine learning on iOS (CoreML ONNX)
Ability to manage memory effectively including low-level C memory management
Familiarity with camera systems and capture pipelines
Ability to optimize CPU and memory usage
Familiarity with CI and similar build systems
Experience managing iOS signing provisioning and build configuration
Proficiency with Python for tooling prototyping or pipeline support
A passion for photography

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