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, and hardware integration.
- Debug system, driver, firmware, and hardware issues across the Windows camera stack.
- Collaborate with camera hardware, silicon, ISP, system software, Microsoft, OEM, and sensor-vendor teams.
- Enable camera features and optimize performance, power management, and system reliability.
- Support WHCP certification, product commercialization, and product launches.
- 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.
- Extensive Windows kernel-mode and user-mode development experience.
- Strong understanding of WDF, including KMDF and UMDF.
- Experience with 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.
- Experience with camera sensor bring-up, validation, and debugging.
- Understanding of ACPI and UEFI firmware interactions with Windows devices.
- Experience with performance optimization, power management, and system reliability.
- 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 work experience; alternatively, a relevant master's degree plus 1+ year of experience or a relevant PhD.
- Preferred experience includes Qualcomm Snapdragon camera drivers, ISP architecture, imaging pipelines, camera tuning, Windows Hello camera requirements, WHCP certification, OEM commercialization, Microsoft or OEM collaboration, and AI/ML-based camera features.
Benefits
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program.
- Opportunity for annual RSU grants; employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for the annual bonus.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
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.