Camera ISP Algorithm Designer – Camera (QCT)

Overview

Company:Qualcomm Korea YH

Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems Engineering

Job Overview:

Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform 5Gs potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age – and this is where you come in.

GENERAL SUMMARY

Researches, designs, develops, and tests operating systems-level software and/or hardware. Designs and coordinates complex engineering projects at the system level. Performs functional decomposition to drive requirements and specifications to both hardware and software. Analyzes information to determine, recommend, and plan installation of a new system or modification of an existing system. Ensures system-level performance and power metrics are met. Drives triage of problems at the system level to determine root cause. The responsibilities of this role include:• Working under some supervision.• Making decisions that are moderate in impact; errors may have relatively minor financial impact or effect on projects, operations, or customer relationships; errors may require involvement beyond immediate work group to correct.• Using verbal and written communication skills to convey information that may be somewhat complex to others who may have limited knowledge of the subject in question. May require basic negotiation and influence, cooperation, tact, and diplomacy, etc.• Having a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to provide input on key decisions).• Completing tasks with multiple steps that can be performed in various orders; some planning and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively; mistakes may result in some rework.• Exercising creativity to draft original documents, imagery, or work products within established guidelines.• Using deductive and inductive problem solving; multiple approaches may be taken/necessary to solve the problem; often information is missing or incomplete; intermediate data analysis/interpretation skills may be required.• May be solicited during strategic planning period. The responsibilities of this role do not include:• Financial accountability (e.g., does not involve budgeting responsibility).Principal Duties & Responsibilities• Gathers, integrates, and interprets information from a variety of sources in order to troubleshoot issues; finds solutions and shares opinions about ways to address the issues.• Collaborates with individuals inside own team and with other teams to complete project work.• Collaborates with project team to accomplish project objectives.• Conducts analyses to identify where an issue has occurred and makes recommendations for how to address the issue with some/minimal supervision.• Anticipates and discusses issues with project team to maintain open communication.• Seeks out learning opportunities to increase own knowledge and skill.• Communicates with project lead via email and direct conversation to provide status and information about impending obstacles.• Manages individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with minimal supervision.• Contributes to conversations during technical team discussion.• Collaborates with tech leads and engineers on a project in order to verify the accuracy of systems with minimal supervision.• Verifies proposed solutions to identified issues; accurately addresses and corrects the problem with minimal supervision.• Adapts to changes and setbacks in order to manage pressure and meet deadlines with minimal supervision.• Implements and tests features with some direction/supervision from tech lead.

We seek a passionate engineer with in-depth knowledge on camera algorithm design, especially ISP related, to join the Camera Systems team. The Camera Systems team creates embedded imaging solutions for Snapdragon chipsets that power advanced technology in mobile devices. Our solutions leverage dedicated hardware, multi-core processors, DSP, and GPU cores to provide state-of-the-art photographs, video recordings, as well as scene data for image understanding and object detection. Responsibilities include the following:

– Research and development for mobile camera features and image/video quality improvement

– Prototype solutions on platforms for proof of concept and demonstration purposes

– Deployment of solutions that improve the mobile imaging experience.

– Design of camera systems that balance power, memory, silicon area to maximize imaging performance.

All Qualcomm employees are expected to actively support diversity on their teams, and in the Company.

Minimum Qualifications

3+ years industry experiences in the following areas:

· Experience with signal, image and color processing

· Experience with C, C++, Matlab

· Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications

· Over Master Degree (PHD Degree preferred)

· Experience with camera technology and ISP (Image Signal Processor) pipeline design

· Experience with different types of sensors and algorithms for sensor and optics processing

· Experience with mobile imaging related development and technology

· Driving ideas from design through commercialization

Keywords

ISP, Image Processing, CMOS Sensor, Algorithm, Color Processing, Noise Reduction, Detail Enhancement, Local Tone Mapping, HDR

Educational Requirements

Required: Master’s, Computer Engineering and/or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience Preferred: Doctorate, Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science and/or Electrical Engineering

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

Bachelors – Computer Science, Bachelors – Engineering, Bachelors – Information Systems

Work Experiences:

2+ years of Systems engineering or related work experience.

Certifications:

Skills:

Preferred Qualifications

Education:

Work Experiences:

2+ years experience with Development Environment Software such as Apache Maven, Ruby, etc. ,4+ years Systems Engineering or related work experience ,1+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Director level and above). ,2+ years experience with Testing Software such as Bugzilla, LoadRunner, etc. ,2+ years experience working in a large matrixed organization. ,2+ years experience with Database Management Software.

Certifications:

Skills:

Decomposition, Enterprise System Implementation, Metrics, Root Cause Analysis, Software Testing Tools

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