Camera Software Application Engineer -- Sr. Staff

Company:

Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Applications Engineering

General Summary:

Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform 5Gs potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age - and this is where you come in.

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.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 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.
OR
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.
OR
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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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

• Support customer for the customization features

• On-site for customer urgent issues support

• 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.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

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 solvi