Engineer, Staff – Automotive Camera Customer Engineer

Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Embedded Systems · Software Engineering

In short

Qualcomm is seeking a Staff Engineer for their Automotive Camera Customer Engineering team in Detroit, Michigan. This role involves designing, integrating, and validating embedded systems for automotive infotainment, ADAS, and robotics platforms, with a strong focus on camera sensors, ISP, and multimedia pipelines. The position requires extensive experience in embedded software, camera systems, and debugging complex issues, collaborating with customers and internal teams throughout the product lifecycle.

Responsibilities

Design, integration, and validation of embedded systems based on Qualcomm's Automotive Infotainment, ADAS, and Robotics SoCs and platforms.
Collaborate with product owners, customers, and domain/technology experts to define requirements and implement technical solutions for customer programs.
Support Automotive OEMs, Tier-1s, Robotics customers, and ecosystem partners in the integration and deployment of solutions based on Qualcomm platforms.
Debug and resolve system-level issues involving camera sensors, ISP, multimedia pipelines, synchronization, performance, stability, and software integration.
Support cameras bring-up, image quality tuning, multimedia integration, and performance optimization on Qualcomm platforms.
Work closely with software, hardware, systems, and product teams to analyze, debug, and resolve customer-reported issues.
Develop technical documentation, integration guides, and troubleshooting materials to support customer development and deployment activities.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
2+ years of experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
1+ year of experience with debugging techniques.
8+ years of experience in Embedded Systems, Automotive, Camera, Multimedia, Robotics, or related domains.
Strong proficiency in C/C++ programming and software architecture design.
Familiarity with camera interfaces and protocols including MIPI CSI-2, I2C, GPIO, V4L2, GMSL, FPD-Link, and SerDes technologies.
Experience with embedded software development, integration, system bring-up, validation, debugging, and optimization of complex embedded systems, including development in compliance with industry standards such as ISO 26262 and ASPICE.
Strong understanding of camera systems, camera architectures, Camera ISP, image processing, image quality (IQ), and video pipelines.
Experience with camera sensor bring-up, sensor drivers, camera framework integration, and end-to-end camera software debugging.
Experience with 3A algorithms (Auto Exposure, Auto Focus, Auto White Balance), image quality tuning, analysis, debugging, and optimization.
Strong system-level understanding of camera and multimedia pipelines, with experience in performance analysis, latency optimization, bandwidth optimization, resource utilization analysis, and end-to-end system debugging.
Experience with automotive camera systems, multi-camera architectures, camera synchronization, frame synchronization, video processing, and time-aligned data acquisition across heterogeneous sensing systems, including Cameras, LiDAR, Radar, IMU, and other ADAS or Robotics perception sensors.
Strong analytical, issue triage, root cause analysis, and problem-solving skills.
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), strong customer engagement skills, and the ability to work effectively in cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.
Quick adaptability to work with new technologies.

Desired Qualifications

Working knowledge of operating systems such as QNX, Linux, Android, and other RTOSs.
Experience with Android Camera Framework, Camera HAL, Media Framework, IPC Mechanisms, and Vehicle HAL interface.
Knowledge of Linux Device Drivers, Embedded Linux, RTOS, Process & Memory Management.
Strong skills in analyzing performance of software/hardware solutions on multi-core architectures; understanding of multi-core architecture fundamentals (core, cache, memory, bus, PCIe, etc.).
Experience using debugging tools such as JTAG, Trace32, and oscilloscope/logic analyzer.
Exposure to Automotive, ADAS, and Robotics product development.
Exposure to Hypervisors and Virtualization.
Experience working with Qualcomm Snapdragon Automotive, ADAS, Robotics, Camera ISP, or Multimedia software stacks.
Familiarity with Computer Vision, OpenCV, AI/ML frameworks, and image-processing applications for automotive and robotics systems.

Benefits

Competitive annual discretionary bonus program
Opportunity for annual RSU grants
Highly competitive benefits package designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play.

Skills

C++Pythonembedded systemsMIPI CSI-2I2CGMSLFPD-LinkSerDesISO 26262ASPICEimage processingQNXLinuxAndroidRTOSJTAGTrace32oscilloscopelogic analyzerOpenCV

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