Camera Software Application Engineer -- Sr. Staff

Qualcomm•Santa Clara, CA

3d•$167,400 - $251,000•Onsite

About The Position

Qualcomm's QCT Application Engineering Group supports customers with all aspects of embedded software and systems development. This includes assisting OEMs with designs, providing training, debugging, assistance in optimizing and integrating software. We seek software engineer with demonstrable knowledge and hands-on camera and embedded system experience. Major responsibility is to provide direct support to OEMs with the design, development and debug of Qualcomm reference designs s/w related issues. Candidate must quickly assimilate onto an existing project, understand s/w driver architecture, read/write technical specifications/requirements, demonstrate strong analytical and problem solving abilities and work closely with external customers to customize and launch their new products.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ 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 5+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
3+ years of experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
3+ years of experience with debugging techniques.

Nice To Haves

Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
Experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
C/C++ programming in Embedded Software systems
Software design/debugging techniques, problem solving, and documentation skills
Android camera stack or framework
Development in Linux Android environment (Make, git etc)
Experience in Multimedia software development engineering for Linux based embedded systems.
Debugging with JTAG
Linux camera sensor driver bring-up
Experience in Camera ISP pipeline
Experience on Image Signal Processing.
Experience in Camera performance and power optimization
Camera sensor driver, VCM driver, flash driver, PLD gating
3A algorithm improvement and troubleshooting
Image processing or codec algorithm development
Knowledge of 3A algorithms, tuning experiences and familiarity with MIPI, I2C, GPIOs, V4L2 a plus.
Android applications (APK), Eclipse development
Programming with real-time operating systems/micro kernel in ARM or Qualcomm's Hexagon microprocessor.

Responsibilities

Provide direct support to OEMs with the design, development and debug of Qualcomm reference designs s/w related issues.
Quickly assimilate onto an existing project.
Understand s/w driver architecture.
Read/write technical specifications/requirements.
Demonstrate strong analytical and problem solving abilities.
Work closely with external customers to customize and launch their new products.
Support customer for the customization features.
On-site for customer urgent issues support.