Job
- Level
- Lead
- Job Field
- Application, Embedded
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Ulm
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this position, you will develop the Android camera middleware system, design the architecture for video processing, and optimize interfaces between camera hardware and applications for BMW vehicles.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- At BMW Car IT, a wholly owned subsidiary of BMW AG, we live and breathe software. We design and implement embedded software for electronic control units of BMW cars as well as related tools and frameworks. By delivering software all the way from the initial idea to the final product, we lead BMW into the future of digitalization and mobility.
- Our team develops innovative solutions for embedded automotive systems and infotainment platforms. We drive the evolution of in-vehicle user experiences and collaborate across domains to deliver robust, scalable video software architectures.
- You will be the Technical Lead responsible for the Android camera video middleware layer, bridging the camera platform, hardware abstraction layer (HAL), and client applications.
- Here, you shape the video middleware architecture across multiple vehicle generations, ensuring performance, stability, safety and extensibility.
- Furthermore, you define and evolve software architectures for video buffering, routing, encoding, decoding, and image blurring. Additionally, you 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.
- Moreover, you ensure implementation aligns with software design and BMW requirements through code reviews. You 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.
- You ensure that Android CDD requirements are fulfilled by suppliers in accordance with every Android OS migration. You manage CTS validation and elaborate solutions to pass Google's certification processes.
- You act as a technical mentor and go-to expert for camera pre-processing within the domain and support with root-cause analysis.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- University degree in computer science, electrical engineering, communications engineering, or a comparable field of study.
Qualifications
- Profound knowledge of overall Android OS architecture and SW development.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and teamwork skills; business-fluent English is required, German is an advantage.
Experience
- Several years of professional experience in embedded software development and quality assurance in the automotive industry with focus on camera- or video-based systems.
- Experience in video processing in Android (Camera HAL, Camera2 API, HAL services, hardware decoding interfaces, video buffer management, buffer sharing between VMs).
- Umfassende Kenntnisse in Video-Buffering, Streaming, Encoding/Decoding und Unschärfe. Erfahrung mit Inter-Prozess-Kommunikation und Middleware-Services.
- Experience with embedded development and analysis tools (e.g., Wireshark, Carmen, Perfetto, FTrace, Ediabas, Diagnostic Log & Trace Viewers, Visual Studio Code, etc.).
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What we offer
- 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.
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BMW AG
Our world-leading premium automotive brands BMW, MINI, Rolls-Royce and our motorcycles, along with our comprehensive range of high-quality financial and mobility services make us a unique provider.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Vehicle Manufacturing, Supplier, Industry, Production
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Principal Engineer for Android Camera Middleware
- Location
- Ulm
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
