Staff Engineer- Camera HWL

Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

Looking for experienced embedded SW engineers interested in developing software for mobile/Auto/XR devices.

Specifically, the position involves developing embedded software supporting Camera functions of Auto Mobile and XR Devices

* Camera driver development.

* Strong knowledge in LA,LE and Yocto build Infrastructure

* Camera end-to-end use case design and feature implementation

* Strong knowledge on Image processing.

* Debugging and resolution with existing code base

* Partnering with global development teams and with external customers

* Some Onsite customers support

* Power and performance optimization

* Design and Implement component unit test for developer validation, test cases, test scenarios, scripts, or procedures with the target to ensure the best coverage of the requirements for each component.

* Develops testing programs that assess effectiveness of a component or modification of an existing component. Ensure that Backward compatibility is maintained for each component.

Candidate MUST have:

Strong knowledge and experience in Camera Sensor, overview of image processing algorithm and V4L2 drivers.

Strong C & C++ programming and debugging skills required.

Strong knowledge in operating system fundamentals like virtual memory, CPU scheduling, process states, synchronization, etc.

Strong knowledge in concepts like RTOS, RAM/Cache, Interrupt handling, etc applied to embedded systems.

Hands on experience in Realtime issues like memory/stack corruption, ANR, deadlocks, race conditions, etc.

Strong communication skills - able to understand and explain highly technical information in a clear and concise manner.

Willing travel to customer sites and other Qualcomm office locations to co-develop next generation smartphones.

Working Experience in any Multimedia technologies like camera/video framework is MUST.

Good to have:

Hands on experience in Camera driver development.

Knowledge of camera sensor bring up, 3A algorithms, tuning experience.

Familiar with Image quality

Unit Test framework experience like CPPTest, GoogleTest.

Minimum Qualifications:
"¢ Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

"¢ 2+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Qualifications:

Bachelor"™s (BE/BTech) or Master"™s (MS/MTech) degree in camera/video framework with 9+ years of experience.

Knowledge of Android Camera & Image processing.

Profound understanding of System-on-Chip (SoC) architecture, Camera pipeline, memory subsystem architecture.

Expertise in programming languages (C/C++)

Strong debugging and analysis skills, including data and statistical analysis, and proficiency in performance & Power.