Ford Motor
Staff Camera Software Engineer
Palo Alto, Santa Clara County · Staff+
No sponsorship$150k-$284kDetected 1 day ago
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About the role
- You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams.
- You'll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out.
- As a Staff Camera Software Engineer, you will take ownership of a Linux camera/ISP stack centered on the chipset vendor's ISP architecture.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain Linux kernel camera and ISP drivers utilizing V4L2, the Media Controller framework, and videobuf2 (vb2).
- Implement and maintain robust firmware interfaces, managing command/response queues, interrupt processing, and work-thread synchronization.
- Manage the buffer lifecycle using MMAP, DMA-BUF import/export, zero-copy mechanisms, and fence signaling to minimize latency.
- Drive power management initiatives, including suspend/resume, runtime PM, and clock/power sequencing robustness for camera hardware subsystems.
- Maintain high code quality through rigorous code reviews and technical documentation while collaborating closely with chipset vendors/silicon partners, camera sensor manufacturers, and user-space camera framework teams.
- At Ford, you can build more than vehicles.
- Come build what matters.
- Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.
- This is a hands-on development role requiring deep kernel-space debugging, concurrency management, and hardware-software co-design.
Requirements
- 10+ years of embedded systems experience, with a minimum of 5 years dedicated to Linux kernel driver development.
- Production-level experience with the Linux media stack (V4L2 ioctls, Media Controller entities, and videobuf2).
- Hands-on experience with MIPI CSI-2 sensor and ISP bring-up.
- Strong knowledge of DMA-BUF, scatter-gather mapping, cache coherency, and kernel debugging tools (GDB, ftrace, lockdep).
- Familiarity with vendor-specific GPU driver stacks, TTM memory models, and firmware mailbox protocols.
- Experience with automotive-grade reliability standards (such as ISO 26262).
- A track record of active contributions to the upstream Linux kernel.
- Demonstrated ability to set technical direction and long-term architecture strategy for a complex subsystem, balancing near-term delivery with future scalability.
- You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!
- You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home?
Compensation
- $150k-$284k
Benefits
- Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company's vision of a fully electric transportation future.
- EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners.
- application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.
Company info
- Description We made history and now we work to transform the future - for our customers, our communities and our families.
- As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice.
- We made history and now we work to transform the future - for our customers, our communities and our families.
Equal opportunity
- We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status.
- In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online
Visa & Work Authorization
- Visa sponsorship is available for this position
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