Senior Camera ISP & Image Quality Engineer

Jobtailor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced ISP tuning engineer in San Francisco to own the camera pipeline end to end across radiometric ranges. You will diagnose image quality issues, tune ISP parameters, and validate improvements in both daylight and low-light conditions.

Responsibilities include embedding camera driver development, driver integration, and exposing ISP controls to the autonomy stack. Expect close collaboration with perception and sensing teams.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience tuning ISP pipelines on real hardware with AE, tone mapping and HDR fusion.
• Deep familiarity with AE internals: metering, exposure in multi-exposure HDR.
• Experience writing/integrating embedded camera drivers and exposing controls to autonomy stack.
• Familiarity with camera data pipelines on embedded platforms and ROS2.
• 8+ years of relevant industry experience in ISP tuning, embedded camera systems, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Own the camera pipeline end to end: diagnose image quality failures and tune ISP parameters.
• Own embedded camera driver development and integration with runtime ISP control.
• Characterize ISP behavior from first principles and compare raw vs processed frames.
• Tune exposure, white balance, HDR, tone mapping, and noise reduction for ML and teleoperation.
• Establish test protocols to confirm improvements in low light without harming daylight.
• Collaborate with perception and autonomy teams to translate constraints into tuning targets.
• Debug camera issues from sensor state to captured imagery in lab and field.
• Define image quality methodologies (SFR/MTF, noise, dynamic range) across generations.
• Manage relationships with ISP, camera module, and embedded compute vendors.

Skills

ISP Pipeline Tuning

Embedded Camera Driver Development

Image Quality Characterization

Data Analysis Skills

Camera Sensor Fundamentals

Radiometry

Tools

V4L2

MIPI CSI-2

GMSL

I2C

ROS2

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced ISP tuning engineer in San Francisco to own the camera pipeline end to end across radiometric ranges. You will diagnose image quality issues, tune ISP parameters, and validate improvements in both daylight and low-light conditions.

Responsibilities include embedding camera driver development, driver integration, and exposing ISP controls to the autonomy stack. Expect close collaboration with perception and sensing teams.