Software Engineer - Camera

Summary:

We are seeking Camera professionals for Meta and Reality Labs. Our teams are defining the camera experience for hundreds of millions of users across the Facebook family of apps including Messenger, Facebook, Instagram, Portal, Oculus and more.Our Camera Software teams explore, develop, and deliver new cutting-edge camera software solutions that serve as the foundation of current and future products. We have multiple openings in which some of the work entails being responsible for rapidly building and iterating on the most-innovative and life-changing camera products, working at the intersection of AI and camera, and building the foundation of future ARVR products. These are 0->1 opportunities, and you will be building something completely new. Our goal is to leverage Computational Photography and Computer Vision to develop camera algorithms and systems to power new camera driven features, formats and experiences that power a variety of use cases across Facebook apps and products.We’re seeking experienced Camera Software Engineers to join our various teams in ARVR and Meta. The ideal candidates have proven design experience, in-depth understanding of camera algorithms and camera systems. Hands-on experience working in Operating Systems or Embedded devices to deliver camera solutions. The candidate will have strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Required Skills:

Software Engineer - Camera Responsibilities:

1. Design, code, review, and tests camera related software features across all layers of the camera stack, including Android applications, Camera HAL and Linux kernel

2. Develop and optimize cutting-edge image processing algorithms based on the research and exploration of industry and academic solutions

3. Build experiences for the Camera app for embedded devices - design, code, review, and test camera related software features, especially on Android applications

4. Build custom solutions tailored to our specific AR computing platform, with implementations on GPU, DSP or Neural Cores

5. Deliver high quality camera experiences with delightful filters, image quality enhancement and smooth sharing across multiple devices and channels

6. Work closely with the System Engineering Team, hardware team, manufacturing partners and QA teams to deliver best in class products

7. Ensure security of the camera system, protecting our users' privacy

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Experience working on the camera stack on iOS, Android or other mobile platforms

2. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

3. Experience developing and debugging in C/C and Java

4. 6 years of experience writing software for embedded/mobile platforms

5. Experience with camera APIs, media processing, and understanding of Video and Image Capture pipeline for embedded devices

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Experience with any of: auto exposure and auto white balance algorithms, software control of Image Signal Processors, image sensor drivers, and MIPI/CSI protocol

2. Experience developing Android Camera application in Java and/or Kotlin

3. Understanding of Video and Image Capture pipeline for embedded devices

4. Experience in Image Processing and Computational Photography, including but not limited to low-light capture, HDR, Depth estimation, video stabilization, denoising, demosaicing, and new camera formats

5. Experience with Halide programming language for high performance image processing

6. Experience working on camera hardware, including sensors, lens, DSP, computer vision processing units

7. Experience with graphics development: OpenGL, Metal, Vulcan

8. Experience with OpenGL and/or OpenCL programming

Public Compensation:

$173,000/year to $241,000/year bonus equity benefits

Industry: Internet

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