About the Role
Join a team deploying autonomous systems on heavy construction machinery, accelerating infrastructure projects and improving job site safety. Apply cutting-edge technology to solve meaningful physical-world problems alongside construction veterans and world-class engineers.
Responsibilities
- Own the camera pipeline end to end, diagnosing image quality failures, tuning ISP parameters, and validating improvements across the full operating radiometric range.
- Own embedded camera driver development and integration, including register-level control, frame synchronization, and software interfaces for runtime ISP parameter control.
- Characterize existing ISP pipeline behavior from first principles, identifying root causes of image quality failures.
- Tune ISP and imager settings to optimize image quality for ML perception models and remote assistance/teleoperation.
- Establish and run test protocols to confirm ISP changes improve low-light performance without adversely affecting daytime model performance.
- Translate scene and platform constraints into concrete ISP tuning targets.
- Debug camera issues from sensor/ISP register state to captured imagery, in lab and field.
- Define and drive image quality characterization methodologies and track performance across hardware and ISP firmware generations.
- Manage relationships with ISP, camera module, and embedded compute vendors.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience tuning ISP pipelines on real hardware with a track record of diagnosing and correcting failure modes.
- Deep familiarity with AE algorithm internals and their interaction with challenging scenes.
- Hands-on experience writing or integrating embedded camera drivers and building associated tooling and software interfaces.
- Familiarity with camera data pipelines on embedded platforms.
- Understanding of how ISP tuning choices affect downstream ML/perception model performance.
- Working knowledge of camera sensor fundamentals.
- Working knowledge of radiometry.
- Strong data analysis skills, including experience with large datasets and statistical methods.
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience in ISP tuning, embedded camera systems, image quality engineering, or closely related roles.
- Demonstrated ability to characterize, diagnose, and improve camera image quality on fielded hardware.
- Embedded systems experience, including driver-level debugging and real-time constraints.
- Comfortable working in C/C++ and/or Python for driver-level work, tooling, and test automation.
Skills
- ISP tuning
- Embedded camera systems
- Image quality engineering
- AE algorithm internals
- Embedded camera drivers (V4L2, MIPI CSI-2, GMSL, I2C)
- Camera data pipelines on embedded platforms
- ML/perception model performance validation
- Camera sensor fundamentals
- Radiometry
- Data analysis
- C/C++
- Python
- Diagnosing AE anchoring and HDR tone mapping failures
- Construction/off-road/automotive/outdoor autonomous/robotic platforms
- Automotive-grade high-speed camera interfaces (GMSL, FPD-Link, MIPI CSI-2)
- Embedded compute platforms (Nvidia Jetson/Orin)
- Camera systems serving human viewing and ML/perception models
- Co-designing active illumination systems
- IEC 60825-1 eye safety analysis
Location
- Remote
- San Francisco, CA
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Optical Engineering, Physics, or a related field
About the Company
- Bedrock is moving AI out of the lab and into the real world, deploying autonomous systems on heavy construction machinery.
- The team includes industry veterans from Waymo, Segment, and Uber Freight.
- Backed by $350M in funding, Bedrock is addressing the construction industry's growing labor shortage.
- The company is passionate about bringing the benefits of automation to underserved areas of the construction industry.
