Senior Imaging Software Engineer

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

At Axon, we’re on a mission to Protect Life. We’re explorers, pursuing society’s most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other.
Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.

Are you interested in developing amazing camera and video systems that operate at the core of real-world products?

We’re looking for a Senior Imaging Software Engineer to join our imaging team in Tampere. In this role, you’ll architect and develop the software pipelines that process, transform, and deliver video across a range of Axon products, including body cameras, dash cameras, drones, and future imaging platforms.

You’ll work primarily at the camera middleware and video pipeline layer, bridging the underlying camera platform with image processing, encoding, streaming, computer vision, and application-level consumers. You’ll collaborate closely with engineers working on camera firmware, sensor integration, image quality, computational photography, and product applications.

The right candidate is comfortable working across the camera stack when needed, but is particularly strong at building robust, high-performance C/C++ multimedia and imaging systems on embedded platforms.

Work Location: This role is based out of our Tampere office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success.
Reports to: Senior Technical Director

What You’ll Do

• 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.

What You Bring

• 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.
• Strong software architecture and cross-team collaboration skills, with the ability to apply modern AI-assisted and automated development workflows to embedded software development, debugging, and validation.
• Experience integrating image-processing or computer-vision components into production systems.
• Ability to debug across application, middleware, platform camera frameworks, and hardware interfaces.
• Familiarity with embedded Linux development; experience with Yocto is beneficial.
• Strong software architecture, communication, and cross-team collaboration skills.

Beneficial Experience

• Experience with Qualcomm camera platforms, Camera HAL, or CamX.
• Experience with robotics and ROS2 System Bus or equivalent inter-process communication protocols.
• Knowledge of H.264/H.265 codecs and hardware-accelerated video pipelines.
• Experience with camera ISP pipelines, image quality, or camera tuning.
• Experience with computer vision or ML-based imaging systems.
• Experience of designing and implementing image processing, CV and ML algorithms.
• Familiarity with Android camera or multimedia frameworks.
• Experience with Rust, Go, Python, test automation, or camera-system simulation.
• Any background in photography, cinematography, colour grading and related areas are useful.

Don’t meet every single requirement? That's ok. At Axon, we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer, better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve.

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If you’re excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.

Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.

Axon’s mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axon’s impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.

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