Staff Engineer - Camera Firmware

Overview

Develop and productize sensing camera firmware on Qualcomm chipsets for Mobile, XR and Auto projects, working on embedded firmware for ISP hardware in C/C++ on a DSP processor.

What you'll do

• Develop and productize sensing camera firmware on Qualcomm chipsets for Mobile/XR/Auto projects.
• Develop embedded firmware for ISP hardware targeted at different tiers of Qualcomm camera solutions, programming in C/C++ on a DSP processor.
• Understand processor architecture, RTOS, peripherals, compiler and linker toolsets.
• Prototype end-to-end use cases with a firmware test bench for early verification of firmware and hardware.
• Collaborate with systems, software and hardware teams across chipset design, bring-up, validation and commercialization.
• Interact with customer engineering teams to commercialize Qualcomm camera solutions with global OEMs and stabilize existing solutions for customer use cases and requirements.

What you'll need

• Relevant experience in one or more of: designing and implementing embedded firmware for embedded processors or microcontrollers.
• Good understanding of image processing or computer vision fundamentals.
• Hands-on knowledge or experience with camera, video or computer vision hardware pipelines, and developing and optimizing firmware for performance, power consumption and memory usage.
• Solid C/C++ programming skills, multithreading, and RTOS/OS concepts.
• Strong debugging skills to debug complex system-level issues.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement and bring up new hardware, and debug camera, multimedia and firmware integration issues and features for mobile, XR and IoT use cases.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• 10 years of relevant industry experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience, OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field and 3+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience, OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

Nice to have

• Experience in device driver development and communication protocols (I2C, SPI, UART, etc.).
• Hands-on experience on Q6 processors.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
• Job area: Engineering Group, Systems Engineering.