Qualcomm

Camera Software Application Engineer -- Sr. Staff

Qualcomm$167K — $251K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field
  • 6+ years (Bachelor's), 5+ years (Master's), or 4+ years (PhD) of Software Applications Engineering experience
  • 3+ years of experience with programming languages like C, C++, Java, or Python
  • 3+ years of experience with debugging techniques

Responsibilities

  • Provide direct support to OEMs for design, development, and debugging of software issues
  • Assist with optimization and integration of software for Qualcomm reference designs
  • Train and guide customer teams through software implementation and troubleshooting
  • Quickly assimilate into existing projects and understand software driver architecture
  • Collaborate with external customers to customize and launch new products

Benefits

  • Competitive annual discretionary bonus program
  • Opportunity for annual RSU grants
  • Comprehensive benefits package designed for work-life balance and employee success
Full Job Description
Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Applications Engineering

General Summary:

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 solving abilities and work closely with external customers to customize and launch their new products.

Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$167,400.00 - $251,000.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer - and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.

About Qualcomm

Qualcomm Ventures is the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated. Founded in 2000, Qualcomm Ventures is a corporate venture capital fund with over 150 active portfolio companies and more than 20 exits over a billion dollars, including 99 Taxis, Cruise Automation, Fitbit, Invensense, NQ Mobile, Waze, and more. As a global investor, Qualcomm Ventures helps connect entrepreneurs to the resources, relationships, and deep industry expertise they need to succeed in the mobile technology ecosystem.

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