Qualcomm
Engineer, Staff – Automotive Camera Customer Engineer
$122K–$183K
Detroit, Michigan · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years in a related domain. Minimum qualifications also list degree-based alternatives: bachelor's plus 4+ years, master's plus 3+ years, or PhD plus 2+ years in Software Applications Engineering, Software Development, or related work; plus 2+ years programming and 1+ year debugging experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field; or master's or PhD in one of those fields, with the corresponding experience alternative stated in the posting.
About the job
Designs, integrates, validates, and supports Qualcomm automotive camera and embedded systems for customer programs, including camera bring-up, tuning, multimedia integration, and system-level troubleshooting.
What you'll do
- Design, integrate, and validate embedded systems on Qualcomm automotive, ADAS, and robotics platforms; support customer integration and deployment.
- Debug camera sensors, ISP, multimedia pipelines, synchronization, performance, stability, and software integration issues; support camera bring-up and image-quality tuning.
- Work with customers and cross-functional teams to define requirements, resolve issues, and develop integration and troubleshooting documentation.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of experience in Embedded Systems, Automotive, Camera, Multimedia, Robotics, or related domains.
- Strong C/C++ proficiency and software architecture design; experience with embedded software development, integration, system bring-up, validation, debugging, and optimization.
- Familiarity with camera interfaces and protocols, including MIPI CSI-2, I2C, GPIO, V4L2, GMSL, FPD-Link, and SerDes technologies.
- Strong understanding of camera systems, ISP, image processing, image quality, video pipelines, camera sensor bring-up, and 3A algorithms.
Nice to have
- Working knowledge of QNX, Linux, Android, or other RTOSs; experience with Android Camera Framework, Camera HAL, Media Framework, IPC Mechanisms, or Vehicle HAL.
- Experience with debugging tools such as JTAG, Trace32, and oscilloscope/logic analyzer; familiarity with Computer Vision, OpenCV, or AI/ML frameworks.
Pay
$122,200.00 - $183,200.00 (base salary)
Tools
C/C++, MIPI CSI-2, I2C, GPIO, V4L2, GMSL, FPD-Link, SerDes
AI focus
The posting lists familiarity with AI/ML frameworks as preferred and mentions image-processing applications for automotive and robotics systems; no specific AI development duties are stated.
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