Android Camera App Engineer

Company & Team Overview:

HP’s vision is to create technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere — every person, every organization, and every community around the globe. With the heart, creativity, and energy of a startup, and the brain, muscles, and determination of a Fortune 100 corporation, we continue to deliver ground-breaking new technologies to build on our 80+ year legacy of innovation.

As we look at the future, HP's expansion will increasingly hinge on high-growth countries, necessitating a tailored approach with local product and technology solutions. The mission of the India & Growing Market Development Centre is to develop products and solutions geared towards fuelling rapid growth in India. Our team's overarching objective is to create solutions tailored specifically for India and in India!

Position Overview: We are seeking a skilled and experienced Senior BSP Engineer to lead the development of BSP software in our product lineup of Laptop/PC/IOT. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of board bring-up, development of board support package, hardware integration and be able to work collaboratively across teams to deliver highly reliable solutions.

A Camera Software Engineer develops and optimizes software for camera systems, focusing on image processing, algorithms, and hardware integration to enhance image quality and performance, often for applications like VR/AR, machine vision, and mobile devices.

Camera Skills:

- Interest and experience with camera components such as 3A, ISP and camera sensors, image processing

- Working experience on Android : Camera2 APIs, Camera framework, Camera Services & Camera HAL.

- Exposure to Image processing techniques

- Understanding of ISP pipelines (for image capture & Video recording) and Camera sensors

- Deep understanding of Android camera stack for Camera App development

- Exposure to camera performance & power optimization techniques

- Working experience in Android debuggers and other performance tools

- Exposure to Android Camera Test Suite execution & issue resolutions

Key Responsibilities:

  - Development of Camera App for mobile and devices.

  - Work on camera software stacks including camera framework, camera HAL, and kernel driver controller

  - Analysis & Debug of general camera issues

  - Collaborate with camera sensor vendors for Camera Sensor module bring-up

  - Improve Camera performance, power and memory and develop related tools to validate them

Basic Qualifications

• B.Tech/M.Tech with 8+years of experience
• Strong analytical & programming skills in C/C++/Java/Kotlin.
• Expert in Android Camera Stack
• Strong understanding of operating system concepts with hands on experience on multithreaded & multicore environment.
• Deep understanding (hands-on development) of Linux Kernel & device drivers
• Good understanding of Android architecture, MM framework, buffer management, Android HAL layer adaptation is a plus.
• Working knowledge of SCM tools (git hub, etc.) & developer tools (Android studio)
• Strong debugging skills (crash/memory/panic etc.).
• Experience in Camera development on Qualcomm/MediaTek platforms  a plus.
• Responsible team player with good communication skills.
• Ability to technically lead a team of engineers and maintain effective communication.
• Quick learner of new concepts with a creative mindset.
• Ability to decipher requirements into actionable tasks with a clear outcome.