Principal Camera & Sensor Applications Engineer
About The Position
The Principal Camera & Sensor Applications Engineer is the technical front line between Mythic's silicon and the customers who will build products on it. The role leads initial technical engagements to understand customer imaging, sensing, and embedded-AI use cases, translates those needs into measurable system requirements, and builds the demonstrations and reference designs that prove Mythic's analog compute advantage in a real camera system. Internally, the role is the sensor and camera-system subject-matter expert — identifying where Mythic technology adds value across automotive, robotics, medical, consumer, and industrial applications, and converting field insight into MRDs, PRDs, and prioritized engineering requirements. The position is deliberately complementary to the Director, Sensor System Engineering role: where that role owns platform architecture and integration from the core HW/SW side, this role owns the customer-facing and applications side — engagement, requirements capture, demos and evaluation kits, design-in support, and system-level validation criteria. Together they close the loop between what customers need and what the Gen2 roadmap delivers.
Requirements
- 10+ years in camera systems, imaging, or embedded vision, including senior technical or team leadership.
- Deep expertise across the imaging signal chain: image sensors, optics, ISP, tuning and calibration, and image-quality measurement.
- Demonstrated success taking camera or vision systems from architecture and prototype through validation and volume production.
- Strong customer-facing technical skills — running evaluations, integration support, and troubleshooting with external engineering teams.
- Proven ability to author functional specifications, MRDs/PRDs, and prioritized requirements that engineering teams can execute against.
- Cross-functional fluency with silicon, hardware, firmware, software, and AI teams.
Nice To Haves
- Experience deploying vision models on embedded or specialized AI accelerators; familiarity with edge AI, SoC integration, or compute-in-memory architectures.
- Background spanning two or more of Automotive (ADAS/in-cabin), Robotics, Medical, Consumer, and Industrial imaging.
- Hands-on development of reference designs, evaluation kits, or proof-of-concept camera systems.
- Semiconductor-side experience with image sensors or ISP product definition.
Responsibilities
- Lead initial technical engagements to understand customer imaging, sensing, and embedded-AI use cases, system architectures, and product constraints.
- Translate customer needs into measurable requirements for image quality, AI performance, latency, power, reliability, interfaces, and system cost.
- Define and develop customer demonstrations, evaluation kits, reference designs, and proof-of-concept systems integrating sensors with Mythic technology.
- Support customers through technical evaluation, system integration, troubleshooting, and design-in.
- Serve as the sensor and camera-system subject-matter expert, identifying where Mythic technology can add value across automotive, robotics, medical, consumer, and industrial applications.
- Translate system and customer requirements into MRDs, PRDs, functional specifications, and prioritized engineering requirements.
- Work closely with silicon, hardware, software, and AI teams to assess feasibility, identify capability gaps, and guide product-roadmap decisions.
- Define system-level validation plans and success criteria covering image quality, AI accuracy, latency, power, reliability, and overall customer experience.
Benefits
- Collaborative and respectful environment
- Tools and support provided
- Trust in employees to deliver
- Diverse team experiences and perspectives
- Professionalism, creativity, and integrity valued
- Inclusive environment where employees feel they belong and can contribute meaningfully
- Equal opportunity and affirmative action employer
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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