# Camera Software Engineering Manager **Company**: Ford Motor Company **Location**: Palo Alto, CA **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $150,200-$283,500 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294 **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/71068?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_252e2704-543 ## Description We are seeking a Camera Software Engineering Manager to own the end-to-end delivery of in-vehicle camera features, driving alignment between the IVI software and the embedded camera firmware. This is a cross-functional leadership role. You will manage engineers and coordinate across Android, firmware, hardware/SoC partners, security, V&V, quality, and manufacturing teams to ship reliable camera capabilities such as live video streaming to the IVI display, image capture, machine-learning-powered features, and object-detection use cases. ## Responsibilities ### Feature Ownership & Delivery - Work with Product and Program Management organizations to define and refine product requirements, coordinate releases, and establish feature delivery milestones. - Own camera feature delivery end-to-end across the IVI software and the embedded camera firmware, from concept to production release. - Translate product requirements into a coherent technical roadmap spanning both the IVI application layer and the embedded C/C++ firmware layer. - Define, track, and communicate milestones, dependencies, and risks; unblock teams and drive decisions to keep releases on schedule. ### Cross-Platform Technical Leadership - Lead the interface contract between IVI and camera firmware, including distributed state-synchronization protocols and UDS-based diagnostics and firmware update flows. - Guide the architecture for the video streaming pipeline: live streaming to the IVI screen, H.264/H.265 encoding, ISP configuration, resolution/frame-rate tuning, and latency optimization. - Guide the integration of machine-learning and computer-vision capabilities, including object detection, classification, tracking, and other camera-based perception use cases. - Work with the platform team to improve and ensure robust communications across vehicle network interfaces, including automotive Ethernet. ### Quality, Verification & Validation - Partner with the V&V team, quality, and systems teams to define test strategies, integration plans, and acceptance criteria for camera features. - Coordinate software integration, bench testing, vehicle-level validation, defect triage, and root-cause analysis across IVI and embedded firmware. - Champion quality across CI pipelines, test frameworks, and code-quality gates, including static analysis and coverage thresholds. ### Security & Manufacturing Readiness - Partner with security teams on secure boot, TLS, certificate-based authentication, and secure provisioning / key injection. - Drive manufacturing readiness, including OTA firmware distribution, version management, artifact release pipelines, and production flashing workflows. ### Stakeholder Communication - Serve as the single point of accountability for camera software status to product, program, and executive stakeholders. - Provide regular, structured updates to Program and Engineering leadership, communicating progress, risks, dependencies, quality metrics, validation status, and release readiness to senior leadership and other key stakeholders. ## Qualifications - 7–10 years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading or managing engineering teams that delivered shipped products. - Familiarity with camera/video software, including capture pipelines, ISP, streaming, H.264/H.265 codecs, and latency-sensitive real-time systems. - Understanding machine-learning inference and computer-vision workflows for camera applications, including model integration, performance optimization, and deployment on resource-constrained platforms. - Demonstrated experience owning features end-to-end across an application layer and an embedded/firmware layer. - Solid understanding of Linux operating system fundamentals, system-level programming, and driver integration. - Deep expertise on at least one side of the stack, with working fluency on the other: - IVI: Kotlin/Java, AAOS (IVI Automotive OS), Jetpack Compose, JNI. - Embedded / OS: C/C++, Linux, RTOS (Zephyr preferred), bootloaders, and device drivers. - Experience with device-to-device / vehicle communication protocols (e.g., UDS, state-sync frameworks, automotive Ethernet). - Proven track record with CI/CD, automated testing, and code-quality gates. - Experience working with V&V, QA, systems engineering, and other cross-functional teams to deliver production software. - Excellent cross-functional communication and program management skills. ## Benefits - Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage - Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more - Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more - Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases - Tuition assistance - Established and active employee resource groups - Paid time off for individual and team community service - A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day - Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time. ## Skills ### Required - camera/video software - machine-learning inference - computer-vision workflows - Linux operating system fundamentals - system-level programming - driver integration - Kotlin/Java - AAOS (IVI Automotive OS) - Jetpack Compose - JNI - C/C++ - RTOS (Zephyr preferred) - bootloaders - device drivers - UDS - state-sync frameworks - automotive Ethernet - CI/CD - automated testing - code-quality gates ### Nice to have - Experience in automotive / in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) software - Hands-on background with ARM Cortex-M based SoCs and vision/camera microcontrollers - Experience shipping OTA firmware updates and managing multi-target build matrices across hardware variants - Familiarity with distributed state synchronization and VHAL integration --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/71068?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)