Apple has posted a job on their website which shows the possibility that the company is preparing to add still and video capturing capabilities in the Apple iPad tablet device in future models. The position of job is for the assurance engineer in Media System division of Apple’s Interactive Media Group which is mainly focused on testing frameworks of digital camera technology for different Apple products.

The job description states that,

The Media Systems team is looking for a software quality engineer with a strong technical background to test still, video and audio capture and playback frameworks. Build on your QA experience and knowledge of digital camera technology (still and video) to develop and maintain testing frameworks for both capture and playback pipelines.

According to the description, the successful candidate has to develop and conduct the functional/system/regression testing.ad-hoc testing, creating and tracking high quality bug reports, and reporting on project progress.

Familiarity with and interest in photography, video as well as media file formats is highly desirable. Experience with tuning of and image pipeline, including, but not limited to AWB, Color Correction, AutoExposure, FrameRate adjustments is a plus.

About a month ago, Apple has unveiled their iPad tablet in the Latest Creations event held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco. The lack of camera in the model which was announced at the event has been seen as one of the huge disappointment of an Apple iPad tablet device.

It seems that Apple is having some plans to integrate video and still capturing capabilities in the future models of their iPad tablet but didn’t include the discussions of it during the announcement for some unknown reasons.

[ Via MacRumors ]