The team is seeking a System Characterization Engineer to perform camera and depth characterization and design validation activities, connecting hardware performance to systems and features performance.
System Characterization Engineer, Camera & Depth Responsibilities:
- Define and execute experimental methodologies for characterizing cameras and depth modules and systems
- Implement robust statistical data processing to infer system performance
- Connect hardware performance to system and feature performance including classical and ML data processing pipelines
- Reconcile differences between models versus experimental data, to enable insights on system behavior or anomalies
- Collaborate within the team and with external teams in areas of algorithms, software, data analysis, manufacturing, and system characterization
- Deliver technical presentations on experimental methodologies and results to cross-functional teams
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- MS or PhD Degree in Optics, Physics, Image Science, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, or related technical discipline
- 2+ years industry experience in camera or display system characterization, validation, and/or test methodologies
- 2+ years experience setting up optical systems for camera characterization
- 2+ years experience performing data analysis in Matlab or Python
- 2+ years experience automating lab experiments with data capture software
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams in a highly interconnected and interdisciplinary environment.
- Working knowledge of modern camera ISPs in consumer electronics
- Working knowledge of camera-based tracking systems such as Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)
- Experience characterizing embedded cameras, such as cellphone cameras
- Experience characterizing displays in consumer electronics
- Experience characterizing of optical systems in Augmented Reality or Virtual Reality devices
- Experience developing and training Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence systems and evaluating their performance
- Experience with joint hardware-software development and associated rapid prototyping.
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$111,000/year to $164,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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