Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Camera Engineering
General Summary:Qualcomm Camera System Team is seeking a passionate camera systems engineer with focus in Image Quality Evaluation to join the team in San Diego. The camera team creates embedded imaging solutions for Snapdragon chipsets that power modern mobile devices. Our solutions leverage dedicated hardware, multi-core processors, DSP, and GPU to deliver exceptional pictures, videos, and computer vision capabilities.
Responsibilities for the position include the following:
- Image Quality (IQ) Evaluation System development for Mobile photo camera, Automotive camera, and IoT Product Camera. The IQ areas include tone/exposure, color and white balance, texture/details, noise, depth and Bokeh, resolution, visual artifacts in photo and video. The IQ Evaluation System development consists of the following activities:
- Define and generate the dataset and IQ aspects/metrics for given camera imaging features (e.g. HDR, Noise Reduction, Depth/Bokeh)
- Develop the SW tools for the lab test automation, metric analysis, and report generation
- Image Quality (IQ) Evaluation for internal camera solutions:
- Perform the IQ evaluation for the internal camera solutions, including the fundamental Imaging Blocks (e.g. Denoising and Sharpening, Tone Mapping, 3A), and the various advanced Imaging Features (e.g. HDR, Depth and Bokeh, Super Resolution). The solutions to be tested can be traditional imaging algorithms or modern machine-learning based features.
- Generate the IQ Evaluation report and communicate with the solution/feature development teams with the IQ evaluation results to improve IQ features
The key qualification for this position will include the followings:
- Good understanding of various camera imaging algorithms (e.g. Denoising and sharpening, 3A, color management, depth and bokeh, multi-frame/multi-exposure processing)
- Good understanding of Image Quality (IQ) aspects, IQ evaluation methodologies and metrics
- Knowledge/experience in designing and setting-up the camera IQ lab test, and real-life test scenarios
- Knowledge/experience in developing objective IQ metrics
- Knowledge/experience in machine learning algorithm for computer vision or computational photography
- Knowledge in camera sensor and modules
- Strong programming skill in MATLAB, Python, and C/C++
- Strong communication skill in generating IQ reports and communicating with the development team
Minimum Qualifications:• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits: $109,400.00 - $164,200.00
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.
