Camera Software Engineering Manager

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.