Principal Engineer for Android Camera Middleware

Principal Engineer for Android Camera Middleware

BMW Group

Ulm, Germany

What awaits you?

• You will be the Technical Lead responsible for the Android camera video middleware layer, bridging the camera platform, hardware abstraction layer (HAL), and client applications.
• Here, you shape the video middleware architecture across multiple vehicle generations, ensuring performance, stability, safety and extensibility.
• Furthermore, you define and evolve software architectures for video buffering, routing, encoding, decoding and image blurring. Additionally, you design and align interfaces between camera platform, video services, applications, and the hardware abstraction layers.
• Close collaboration with functional owners, system architects, SoC suppliers, video middleware teams and client teams for Camera Infrastructure, Display & Graphics, Android/Linux platform, and vehicle function teams.
• Moreover, you ensure implementation aligns with software design and BMW requirements through code reviews. You contribute to system and software architecture by translating concepts into solutions, defining and validating technical requirements, and developing optimizations to enhance system performance and stability.
• You ensure that Android CDD requirements are fulfilled by suppliers in accordance with every Android OS migration. You manage CTS validation and elaborate solutions to pass Google’s certification processes.
• You act as a technical mentor and go-to expert for camera pre-processing within the domain and support with root-cause analysis.

What should you bring along?

• University degree in computer science, electrical engineering, communications engineering, or a comparable field of study.
• Several years of professional experience in embedded software development and quality assurance in the automotive industry with focus on camera- or video-based systems.
• Profound knowledge of overall Android OS architecture and SW development.
• Experience in video processing in Android (Camera HAL, Camera2 API, HAL services, hardware decoding interfaces, video buffer management, buffer sharing between VMs).
• Comprehensive knowledge in video buffering, streaming, encoding/decoding and blurring. Experience with inter-process communication and middleware services.
• Experience with embedded development and analysis tools (e.g. Wireshark, Carmen, Perfetto, FTrace, Ediabas, Diagnostic Log & Trace Viewers, Visual Studio Code, etc.).
• Excellent analytical, communication, and teamwork skills; business‑fluent English is required, German is an advantage.