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Camera Systems Architect, Camera Hardware Development

Amazon.com Services LLC
Sunnyvale, California, USA
$114.3K a year
Full-time

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics.

Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products.

Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo.

What will you help us create?

Key job responsibilities

As a key part of the camera team, we are looking for a camera systems architect to drive the current and future product architectures that meet our product vision.

The candidate will translate feature requirements and provide an imaging solutions, including understanding of ISP capabilities, power budgets, optical and mechanical designs requirements and cost analysis.

Candidate will be heavily involved in the camera module design activities for manufacturing as well as developing core intellectual properties and implementations in imaging area such as image quality tuning, calibration, improvements on auto-exposure, auto-white balance and auto-focus.

A day in the life

You will be responsible for all imaging aspects of camera modules and collaborate with cross functional team to understand 2D / 3D camera system.

You will provide the solution that meet imaging requirements by image simulation and modeling and / or working with prototypes.

You will be responsible to derive architect specifications down to component level such as, sensor, lens, ICR, and ISP. You will help and lead to the development of camera technology roadmaps.

About the team

We imagine, innovate, and implement sensing technologies and imaging solution for Amazon devices of today and tomorrow. We span existing and emerging technologies to delight customers by harmoniously capturing and perceiving their world.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :

Sunnyvale, CA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • BS EE or CS, Physics, Image Science, Electrical Engineering or relate experience
  • 5 years of work experience with camera system development process.
  • Experience with major platform SoCs.
  • Experience in imaging optics, including lens design and illumination design.
  • Experience with programming skills including Matlab and C++.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • MS or PhD, EE or CS, Optics, Physics, Image Science, Electrical Engineering or relate experience
  • Experience with other related consumer imaging devices. High definition video experiences. Experiences in webcam, DSC, camera modules, surveillance camera, sport camera, 3D depth sensing technologies.
  • Experience and hands-on practice in camera module design and manufacturing
  • Experience with multi-camera calibration methodology
  • Experience with design and implementation knowledge of FOL processes such as wafercleaning, die attach, housing attach, flip chip, as well as clean room operations
  • Experience in design and implementation knowledge of imaging control algorithms suchas AE / AWB / AF / face tracking
  • Experience with image pipeline in still and video cameras
  • Experience with FW implementation of imaging system / devices
  • Experience with various sensor and bus interfaces : MIPI, CCP2, USB, parallel, I2C, SPI.
  • Knowledge in both sequential and non-sequential optics design tool ( Zemax, Code V, LightTool, FRED and / or ASAP)
  • Good documentation and communication skills. Must be able to produce imaging functional specification and realistic schedule.
  • 30+ days ago
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