3 days ago
Base Salary
$124k - $186k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop Windows camera drivers and camera framework components.
- Lead camera sensor bring-up, validation, debugging, and hardware integration activities.
- Debug complex system, driver, firmware, and hardware issues across the camera stack.
- Collaborate with camera hardware, silicon, ISP, system software, OEM, sensor-vendor, and Microsoft teams.
- Drive camera feature enablement, performance optimization, power management, and system reliability.
- Support WHCP certification, OEM commercialization efforts, product launches, and Windows hardware requirements.
- Review software designs, conduct code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and provide technical leadership.
- Influence camera architecture decisions across multiple product generations.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in C/C++ software development.
- At least 3 years of Windows device-driver development experience and extensive Windows kernel-mode and user-mode development experience.
- Strong understanding of WDF technologies, including KMDF and UMDF.
- Experience with Windows camera technologies including AVStream, Media Foundation, Device MFT, Camera Frame Server, and the Windows Camera Pipeline.
- Experience with WinDbg, WPA/WPR, Visual Studio, and ETW tracing.
- Experience with MIPI CSI-2, CCI/I2C, SPI, GPIO, and interrupt handling for camera hardware.
- Experience with camera sensor bring-up, validation, debugging, performance optimization, power management, and system reliability.
- Understanding of ACPI and UEFI firmware interactions with Windows devices.
- Proficiency with Git and Perforce.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, or a related field plus 2+ years of software engineering or related experience; or a master's degree plus 1+ year; or a PhD in a relevant field.
- Preferred experience with Linux and Android operating systems, Linux kernel and device-driver development, native and para-virtualized Linux/QNX drivers, Linux internals, and Linux debugging.
- Preferred familiarity with V4L2, Media Controller Framework, Device Tree, Android Camera frameworks, ISP architecture, imaging pipelines, AE, AF, AWB, HDR, and low-light imaging.
- Preferred experience developing camera drivers for Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms and supporting Windows Hello, WHCP certification, OEM commercialization, Microsoft, camera sensor vendors, or OEM customers.
- Preferred understanding of AI/ML-based camera features such as background blur, auto framing, eye contact correction, and image enhancement.
Benefits
- Annual base pay range of $123,700.00-$185,500.00, plus a discretionary annual bonus program and potential annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
- Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations during the application and hiring process.
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a public semiconductor company headquartered in San Diego, founded in 1985, that designs and sells wireless chipsets and platforms for mobile devices, automotive, IoT, and networking, notably the Snapdragon application processors and 5G modems. It also licenses a large portfolio of cellular patents to device makers, generating revenue alongside chip sales; its technology underpins many Android smartphones and emerging automotive and edge-compute systems, and it trades on NASDAQ as QCOM.