$122,200 - $183,200 USD yearly
Support Automotive OEMs and Tier-1s deploying camera pipelines on Qualcomm Snapdragon Automotive and ADAS platforms.
Originally posted 23 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Staff Automotive Camera Customer Engineer, you will handle the design, integration, and validation of embedded systems based on Qualcomm's Automotive Infotainment, ADAS, and Robotics SoCs and platforms. You will support automotive OEMs, Tier-1s, and ecosystem partners on camera sensor bring-up, image signal processor (ISP) tuning, and system-level issue resolution.
What you'll do
- Support Automotive OEMs, Tier-1s, and robotics customers with the integration, bring-up, and commercial deployment of camera solutions on Qualcomm platforms.
- Debug and resolve system-level issues involving camera sensors, ISP, multimedia pipelines, synchronization, performance, and stability.
- Support camera bring-up, image quality tuning, multimedia integration, and latency/bandwidth performance optimization.
- Collaborate with software, hardware, systems, and product teams to analyze and resolve customer-reported defects.
- Develop technical documentation, integration guides, and troubleshooting materials to support customer development activities.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field with 4+ years of software applications engineering or development experience (or Master's with 3+ years, or PhD with 2+ years), along with 8 years of experience in embedded systems, automotive, camera, multimedia, or robotics domains.
- Strong proficiency in C/C++ programming and software architecture design.
- Direct experience with camera interfaces and protocols including MIPI CSI-2, I2C, GPIO, V4L2, GMSL, FPD-Link, and SerDes technologies.
- Hands-on experience in camera sensor bring-up, sensor drivers, camera framework integration, and compliance with industry standards such as ISO 26262 and ASPICE.
- Demonstrated background in Camera ISP, image quality (IQ) tuning, 3A algorithms (Auto Exposure, Auto Focus, Auto White Balance), and video pipelines.
- Experience with multi-camera architectures, camera and frame synchronization, and time-aligned data acquisition across heterogeneous sensing systems including LiDAR, Radar, and IMU.
Nice to have
- Working knowledge of operating systems including QNX, Linux, Android, and other RTOSs.
- Experience with Android Camera Framework, Camera HAL, Media Framework, IPC Mechanisms, and Vehicle HAL interface.
- Knowledge of Linux Device Drivers, Embedded Linux, process and memory management, and multi-core architecture fundamentals (core, cache, memory, bus, PCIe).
- Experience with debugging tools such as JTAG, Trace32, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers.
- Exposure to hypervisors, virtualization, Computer Vision, OpenCV, AI/ML frameworks, or Snapdragon Automotive and ADAS stacks.
Skills: MIPI CSI-2, camera ISP, automotive, ADAS, embedded systems
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This role has been open 12 days — well below the 95-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Automotive IC
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Open roles in category
143
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Median days open
95 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$152k
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| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (143 roles · 23 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 10 | 143 |
| Median days open | 34 d | 95 d (−61 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $152k |
Skills observed across this category: MIPI CSI-2, camera ISP, automotive, ADAS, embedded systems
Who's hiring in this category
- Infineon Technologies · 34 open roles · median 78 d
- Texas Instruments · 23 open roles · median 141 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 22 open roles · median 91 d
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 10 open roles · median 35 d
- Renesas Electronics · 10 open roles · median 103 d
- Microchip Technology · 8 open roles · median 229 d
How we counted: 143 open Applications FAE (Automotive IC) roles from 23 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 6 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.