Senior Imaging Engineer — Real-Time Camera Pipelines

Axon; Tampere; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Axon in Tampere is seeking a Senior Imaging Software Engineer to architect and build camera middleware and real-time video pipelines across Axon products, including body cameras and other imaging platforms. You will work on embedded Linux, using GStreamer and C/C++, ensuring low latency, high throughput, and robust performance while collaborating with firmware, image processing, and hardware teams.

The role follows a hybrid schedule with in-office collaboration and Mondays remote, reporting to

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, primarily in C/C++.
• Strong experience with camera, video, multimedia, or high-throughput processing pipelines on Linux or embedded platforms.
• Hands-on experience with GStreamer or comparable multimedia frameworks.
• Strong understanding of buffer management, zero-copy architectures, synchronization, multithreading, and real-time performance.
• Experience integrating image-processing or computer-vision components into production systems.
• Familiarity with embedded Linux development; experience with Yocto is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop camera middleware and real-time video pipeline components across Axon products.
• Build high-performance multimedia pipelines using GStreamer and platform-specific media frameworks.
• Integrate image processing, computer vision, and ML algorithms into production camera pipelines.
• Optimize pipelines for latency, throughput, memory bandwidth, power, and stability.
• Collaborate with Camera HAL, firmware, image processing, and hardware teams on interfaces and system integration.
• Debug complex issues across middleware, camera frameworks, drivers, and hardware.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and cross-team technical decisions.

Skills

C/C++

Camera pipelines

GStreamer

Linux / Embedded Linux

Multimedia frameworks

Real-time performance

Software architecture

Cross-team collaboration

AI-assisted development workflows

ROS2

CamX

Yocto

Tools

GStreamer

CamX

Yocto

Job description

Axon in Tampere is seeking a Senior Imaging Software Engineer to architect and build camera middleware and real-time video pipelines across Axon products, including body cameras and other imaging platforms. You will work on embedded Linux, using GStreamer and C/C++, ensuring low latency, high throughput, and robust performance while collaborating with firmware, image processing, and hardware teams.

The role follows a hybrid schedule with in-office collaboration and Mondays remote, reporting to