Principal Engineer for Android Camera Middleware

• Technical Lead responsible for the Android camera video middleware layer, bridging the camera platform, hardware abstraction layer (HAL), and client applications
• Shape the video middleware architecture across multiple vehicle generations, ensuring performance, stability, safety and extensibility
• Define and evolve software architectures for video buffering, routing, encoding, decoding and image blurring
• Design and align interfaces between camera platform, video services, applications, and the hardware abstraction layers
• Close collaboration with functional owners, system architects, SoC suppliers, video middleware teams and client teams for Camera Infrastructure, Display & Graphics, Android/Linux platform, and vehicle function teams
• Ensure implementation aligns with software design and BMW requirements through code reviews
• Contribute to system and software architecture by translating concepts into solutions, defining and validating technical requirements, and developing optimizations to enhance system performance and stability
• Ensure that Android CDD requirements are fulfilled by suppliers in accordance with every Android OS migration
• Manage CTS validation and elaborate solutions to pass Google’s certification processes
• Act as a technical mentor and go-to expert for camera pre-processing within the domain and support with root-cause analysis

• University degree in computer science, electrical engineering, communications engineering, or a comparable field of study
• Several years of professional experience in embedded software development and quality assurance in the automotive industry with focus on camera- or video-based systems
• Profound knowledge of overall Android OS architecture and SW development
• Experience in video processing in Android (Camera HAL, Camera2 API, HAL services, hardware decoding interfaces, video buffer management, buffer sharing between VMs)
• Comprehensive knowledge in video buffering, streaming, encoding/decoding and blurring
• Experience with inter-process communication and middleware services
• Experience with embedded development and analysis tools (e.g. Wireshark, Carmen, Perfetto, FTrace, Ediabas, Diagnostic Log & Trace Viewers, Visual Studio Code, etc.)
• Excellent analytical, communication, and teamwork skills
• business‑fluent English is required

German is an advantage

• Company car option
• English speaking teams in an intercultural setting
• Flexible organisation of working times & mobile work arrangements
• Career development & continuous personal qualification
• Relocation Services for our new employees