Principal Camera & Sensor Applications Engineer

Mythic; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Mythic is seeking a Principal Camera & Sensor Applications Engineer to lead the customer-facing side of imaging and embedded-AI engagements. You will translate field needs into measurable specifications, build demos, and guide system-level validation to prove Mythic’s analog compute advantage in real camera systems.

The role collaborates with silicon, hardware, software, and AI teams to ensure successful design-in, evaluation, and roadmap alignment across automotive, robotics, medical, consumer,

Qualifications

• 10+ years in camera systems, imaging, or embedded vision.
• Strong experience leading customer engagements and translating needs into specs.
• Proven ability to drive system-level validation and design-in support.

Responsibilities

• Lead initial technical engagements with customers on imaging, sensing, and embedded AI use cases.
• Translate customer requirements into measurable specs for image quality, AI performance, latency, power, and cost.
• Develop demonstrations, evaluation kits, and reference designs integrating Mythic technology.
• Collaborate with silicon, hardware, software, and AI teams to align roadmap and feasibility.

Skills

Senior leadership

Customer facing

Requirements engineering

System validation

Camera imaging

Embedded AI

Cross-functional

Tools

Evaluation kits

Reference designs

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.

What You'll Do

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.

What You'll Bring

• 10+ years in camera systems, imaging, or embedded vision, including senior technical or team leadership.
• Deep expertise across the imaging signal chain: image sensors, optics, ISP, tuning and calibration, and image-quality measurement.
• Demonstrated success taking camera or vision systems from architecture and prototype through validation and volume production.
• Strong customer-facing technical skills — running evaluations, integration support, and troubleshooting with external engineering teams.
• Proven ability to author functional specifications, MRDs/PRDs, and prioritized requirements that engineering teams can execute against.
• Cross-functional fluency with silicon, hardware, firmware, software, and AI teams.

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.

$180,000 - $270,000 a year

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.