Staff Camera Software Engineer

Ford Motor Company•Palo Alto, CA

2d•$150,200 - $283,500

About The Position

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams. In this position... As a Staff Camera Software Engineer, you will take ownership of a Linux camera/ISP stack centered on the chipset vendor's ISP architecture. Your work will span V4L2 media pipeline implementation, firmware command/response integration, DMA-BUF and GPU-shared memory handling, sensor/CSI bring-up, and production-grade reliability fixes. This is a hands-on development role requiring deep kernel-space debugging, concurrency management, and hardware-software co-design. As a staff-level engineer, you will also serve as a technical leader setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and driving cross-team alignment on the camera/ISP roadmap.

Requirements

Deep kernel-space debugging
Concurrency management
Hardware-software co-design

Responsibilities

Take ownership of a Linux camera/ISP stack centered on the chipset vendor's ISP architecture.
Implement V4L2 media pipeline.
Integrate firmware command/response.
Handle DMA-BUF and GPU-shared memory.
Perform sensor/CSI bring-up.
Implement production-grade reliability fixes.
Perform deep kernel-space debugging.
Manage concurrency.
Engage in hardware-software co-design.
Serve as a technical leader setting architectural direction.
Mentor engineers.
Drive cross-team alignment on the camera/ISP roadmap.