Senior Android Camera Framework Engineer

Fresh Consulting•Plantation, FL

1d•$140,000 - $160,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Fresh Consulting is seeking a Senior Android Camera Framework Engineer to own and develop the Android camera framework for camera-enabled products. The role covers maintaining the Camera HAL3 implementation across platform updates, integrating the vendor ISP pipeline, and enabling preview, still capture, video, and ML inference to share a sensor. The engineer will develop efficient buffer paths, manage camera metadata, configure stabilization, and ensure thermal limits and privacy controls are handled appropriately. The position also owns the Camera2 and CameraX surfaces used by first- and third-party applications. It is a full-time direct-hire role based in Plantation, Florida, with a hybrid or remote work arrangement. The stated annual salary range is $140,000 to $160,000. Fresh Consulting notes that compensation depends on factors including location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in the Android camera framework.
Hands-on HAL3 / AIDL camera HAL experience, including implementing or substantially rewriting a camera HAL rather than only configuring one.
At least 3 years of C++ programming experience.
Fluency in the camera metadata model.
Experience with stream configuration and buffer management across concurrent use cases.
Experience with Camera2 and CameraX.
Experience with the AOSP build system, SELinux, and SEPolicy.
Comfort working on both sides of the HAL boundary, including logcat and kernel traces.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Qualcomm CamX / Chi-CDK.
Experience with zero-copy media pipelines, including MediaCodec, Gralloc, and DRM.
Camera experience outside the phone form factor, especially without a conventional viewfinder.
Experience feeding ML inference from a live camera pipeline.
Experience with capture devices built under privacy regulations such as GDPR and the EU AI Act.
Experience with CTS / VTS camera compliance.

Responsibilities

Own the Camera HAL3 implementation and maintain it across platform updates.
Integrate the vendor ISP pipeline, including node graphs, use cases, and capture request handling.
Enable preview, still capture, video, and ML inference to run concurrently while sharing one sensor.
Build zero-copy buffer paths to the encoder and display to reduce CPU and power costs.
Own camera metadata, including metadata needed for vision-language models to interpret frames correctly.
Configure stabilization for continuous head motion using hardware timestamps provided by the kernel team.
Design how thermal limits are communicated to applications and users so they do not result in silent failures.
Own the privacy path, including capture indicators, permissions, and SELinux policy.
Ship the Camera2 and CameraX surfaces used by first- and third-party applications.