Staff Camera & ISP Linux Kernel Engineer (Hybrid)

Ford Motor Company; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Immediate medical, dental, vision and

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount program for employees

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor Company seeks an experienced Staff Camera Software Engineer to own a Linux camera/ISP stack. You will champion V4L2-driven pipelines, MIPI CSI-2 bring-up, and kernel-space debugging while collaborating with chipset vendors and sensor teams.

This leadership role requires mentoring engineers, setting architectural direction, and delivering reliable, low-latency image paths for preview, video, and ZSL in production environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years embedded systems experience with Linux kernel driver work.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Linux kernel camera and ISP drivers using V4L2 and vb2.

Skills

Embedded systems

Linux kernel driver development

C programming

Memory management

Concurrency

Kernel debugging

Power management

MIPI CSI-2

V4L2

DMA-BUF

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

V4L2

Media Controller

videobuf2

Job description

Ford Motor Company seeks an experienced Staff Camera Software Engineer to own a Linux camera/ISP stack. You will champion V4L2-driven pipelines, MIPI CSI-2 bring-up, and kernel-space debugging while collaborating with chipset vendors and sensor teams.

This leadership role requires mentoring engineers, setting architectural direction, and delivering reliable, low-latency image paths for preview, video, and ZSL in production environments.