Senior Android Camera Framework Engineer
Fresh Consulting3 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$140k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and maintain the Camera HAL3 implementation across Android platform updates.
- Integrate the vendor ISP pipeline, including node graphs, use cases, and capture request handling.
- Solve concurrent preview, still-image, video, and ML-inference streaming from one sensor.
- Build zero-copy buffer paths to the encoder and display to reduce CPU and power costs.
- Own camera metadata and ensure frames contain the information required by vision-language models.
- Configure stabilization for continuous head motion using hardware timestamps from the kernel team.
- Design how thermal limits are surfaced to applications and users.
- Own camera privacy controls, including capture indicators, permissions, and SELinux policy.
- Ship the Camera2 and CameraX surfaces used by first- and third-party applications.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience with the Android camera framework.
- Hands-on experience implementing or substantially rewriting a HAL3/AIDL camera HAL.
- 3+ years of C++ programming experience.
- Fluency in the camera metadata model.
- Experience with stream configuration and buffer management across concurrent use cases.
- Experience with Camera2 and CameraX.
- Experience with the AOSP build system, SELinux, and SEPolicy.
- Ability to work across the HAL boundary, including logcat and kernel traces.
- Preferred: experience with Qualcomm CamX/Chi-CDK.
- Preferred: experience with zero-copy media pipelines using MediaCodec, Gralloc, and DRM.
- Preferred: camera work outside the phone form factor, live-camera ML inference, privacy-regulated capture devices, and CTS/VTS camera compliance.
Benefits
- Excellent benefits are available, including unlimited PTO, 401(k) match, a role-tied bonus percentage, fully reimbursed travel and expenses, unlimited Coursera e-learning, and relocation assistance.
- Full-time direct-hire position located in Plantation, Florida, with hybrid or remote work options.
About Fresh Consulting
Fresh Consulting is a strategy, design, software, and hardware engineering consultancy that builds digital products, robotics, and connected systems for businesses. It delivers end-to-end services—UX/UI, brand identity, web/mobile and embedded development, and systems engineering—via integrated project teams. The company is privately held and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, supporting initiatives that link humans, software, and devices from early strategy through delivery.