Camera Image & Video Quality Engineer

Key Skills

C Programming, Debugging, Effective communication skills, Image processing, Python Programming, Video coding and processing

Job Description

We are looking for a great teammate who is dedicated to understanding, building, and enabling cutting-edge camera features. This role requires an understanding of different camera pipeline components, their impact on image and video quality, and a clear vision of what constitutes a phenomenal camera. You will run image and video quality evaluations through experimental studies both in-lab and in the field and provide direct feedback to the engineering teams. In this role you'll be a critical part of a fast-paced, collaborative team and work in a high energy, time-constrained, multitasking environment to significantly impact our image/video quality.

Responsibilities

• Setting up lab and field environments for image/video quality testing
• Designing and conducting experimentsIterating through various parameters to optimize image/video quality
• Building automated tooling to collect data on image/video quality
• Developing a testing methodology to gather input on subjective image/video quality changes

Requirements

• Familiarity in C and Python
• Experience in, or an understanding of, the methodology used in objective and subjective camera image quality benchmarking and analysis
• Excellent sense of photography and videography/cinematography (understanding on a technical & artistic level as to what makes a good photograph good, and a good video good)
• Deep understanding of digital photography, camera image processing technologies, and aspects of computational photography
• Understanding of conventional camera pipelines & operations and why they are necessary: sharpening, denoising, HDR & image fusion concepts, compression & video coding,etc.
• Focus on details, with strong debugging & analytical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to work collaboratively with a cross-functional team
• Ability to deliver outstanding results under times of intense levels of deadlines and heavy workload

Verkada is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to be a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work. A big part of that effort is support for members and allies of our internal communities like Women at Verkada, Pride at Verkada, Multicultural at Verkada, and Parents at Verkada.