Camera ISP Architecture Sr Staff Engineer

Job Summary

Qualcomm is the innovation leader in the area of integrated chipsets that power advanced mobile devices, XR/IoT/Automotive compute platforms. We are building on and expanding our reputation as the industry powerhouse for innovation in both wireless technologies and enabling advanced multimedia capabilities. We are seeking a passionate camera system architect to join the multimedia arch team in Bangalore, India. The team creates embedded imaging solutions for Snapdragon chipsets that power advanced mobile, automotive, IoT, and AR/VR devices. Our solutions leverage dedicated hardware, multi-core processors, DSP, and GPU cores to provide state-of-the-art photographs, video recordings, and machine intelligence. As a camera architect engineer, you will play a key role in analyzing and defining the architecture of new Spectra image signal processors (ISPs) inside Snapdragon SoCs for ADAS, XR, premium mobile markets.

Key responsibilities

• Perform architecture analysis to compare architecture options and align teams to a recommendation
• Work with engineering teams to define data and control flows
• Explore ISP architecture options including hardware, firmware, software and the programming/control models of Spectra ISPs

Preferred Qualifications

• Academic/industry experiences in the following areas:
  • Image/video signal processing
  • Image sensor technology
  • SoC
  • System architecture and/or hardware micro-architecture and/or embedded software/firmware
  • Power, performance, area analysis
  • Experience with modern camera technologies and camera ISP pipeline.
  • Good communication skills.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

Keywords

• Camera
• ISP
• embedded
• multimedia
• image
• algorithms
• architect
• micro-architecture