Principal Camera & Sensor Applications Engineer

Mythic Ai.Com; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Mythic is seeking an Principal Camera & Sensor Applications Engineer in Palo Alto to lead technical engagements with customers, understand imaging and embedded-AI use cases, and translate them into measurable requirements for demonstrations and reference designs.

You will work across automotive, robotics, medical, consumer, and industrial applications, partnering with silicon, hardware, software, and AI teams to validate system-level performance and guide roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Experience deploying vision models on embedded or specialized AI accelerators; familiarity with edge AI, SoC integration, or compute-in-memory architectures.
• Background spanning two or more of Automotive (ADAS/in-cabin), Robotics, Medical, Consumer, and Industrial imaging.
• Hands-on development of reference designs, evaluation kits, or proof-of-concept camera systems.
• Semiconductor-side experience with image sensors or ISP product definition.

Responsibilities

• Lead initial technical engagements to understand customer imaging, sensing, and embedded-AI use cases, system architectures, and product constraints.
• Translate customer needs into measurable requirements for image quality, AI performance, latency, power, reliability, interfaces, and system cost.
• Define and develop customer demonstrations, evaluation kits, reference designs, and proof-of-concept systems integrating sensors with Mythic technology.
• Support customers through technical evaluation, system integration, troubleshooting, and design-in.
• Serve as the sensor and camera-system subject-matter expert, identifying where Mythic technology can add value across automotive, robotics, medical, consumer, and industrial applications.
• Translate system and customer requirements into MRDs, PRDs, functional specifications, and prioritized engineering requirements.
• Work closely with silicon, hardware, software, and AI teams to assess feasibility, identify capability gaps, and guide product-roadmap decisions.
• Define system-level validation plans and success criteria covering image quality, AI accuracy, latency, power, reliability, and overall customer experience.

Skills

Vision models deployment

Edge AI

SoC integration

Compute-in-memory

Automotive imaging

Robotics imaging

Cross-domain imaging

Reference designs

Image sensors

ISP product definition

Job description

The Principal Camera & Sensor Applications Engineer is the technical front line between Mythic's silicon and the customers who will build products on it. The role leads initial technical engagements to understand customer imaging, sensing, and embedded-AI use cases, translates those needs into measurable system requirements, and builds the demonstrations and reference designs that prove Mythic's analog compute advantage in a real camera system. Internally, the role is the sensor and camera-system subject-matter expert - identifying where Mythic technology adds value across automotive, robotics, medical, consumer, and industrial applications, and converting field insight into MRDs, PRDs, and prioritized engineering requirements.

The position is deliberately complementary to the Director, Sensor System Engineering role: where that role owns platform architecture and integration from the core HW/SW side, this role owns the customer-facing and applications side - engagement, requirements capture, demos and evaluation kits, design-in support, and system-level validation criteria. Together they close the loop between what customers need and what the Gen2 roadmap delivers.

External/Customer-Facing

• Lead initial technical engagements to understand customer imaging, sensing, and embedded-AI use cases, system architectures, and product constraints.
• Translate customer needs into measurable requirements for image quality, AI performance, latency, power, reliability, interfaces, and system cost.
• Define and develop customer demonstrations, evaluation kits, reference designs, and proof-of-concept systems integrating sensors with Mythic technology.
• Support customers through technical evaluation, system integration, troubleshooting, and design-in.

Internal-Facing

• Serve as the sensor and camera-system subject-matter expert, identifying where Mythic technology can add value across automotive, robotics, medical, consumer, and industrial applications.
• Translate system and customer requirements into MRDs, PRDs, functional specifications, and prioritized engineering requirements.
• Work closely with silicon, hardware, software, and AI teams to assess feasibility, identify capability gaps, and guide product-roadmap decisions.
• Define system-level validation plans and success criteria covering image quality, AI accuracy, latency, power, reliability, and overall customer experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience deploying vision models on embedded or specialized AI accelerators; familiarity with edge AI, SoC integration, or compute-in-memory architectures.
• Background spanning two or more of Automotive (ADAS/in-cabin), Robotics, Medical, Consumer, and Industrial imaging.
• Hands-on development of reference designs, evaluation kits, or proof-of-concept camera systems.
• Semiconductor-side experience with image sensors or ISP product definition.

At Mythic, we foster a collaborative and respectful environment where people can do their best work. We hire smart, capable individuals, provide the tools and support they need, and trust them to deliver. Our team brings a wide range of experiences and perspectives, which we see as a strength in solving hard problems together. We value professionalism, creativity, and integrity, and strive to make Mythic a place where every employee feels they belong and can contribute meaningfully.

Mythic is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. It ensures equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, national origin, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.