Principal Camera & Sensor Applications Engineer

Responsibilities

External/Customer-Facing

• Lead initial technical engagements to understand customer imaging, sensing, and embedded-AI use cases, system architectures, and product constraints.
• Translate customer needs into measurable requirements for image quality, AI performance, latency, power, reliability, interfaces, and system cost.
• Define and develop customer demonstrations, evaluation kits, reference designs, and proof-of-concept systems integrating sensors with Mythic technology.
• Support customers through technical evaluation, system integration, troubleshooting, and design-in.

Internal-Facing

• Serve as the sensor and camera-system subject-matter expert, identifying where Mythic technology can add value across automotive, robotics, medical, consumer, and industrial applications.
• Translate system and customer requirements into MRDs, PRDs, functional specifications, and prioritized engineering requirements.
• Work closely with silicon, hardware, software, and AI teams to assess feasibility, identify capability gaps, and guide product-roadmap decisions.
• Define system-level validation plans and success criteria covering image quality, AI accuracy, latency, power, reliability, and overall customer experience.

Preferred

• Experience deploying vision models on embedded or specialized AI accelerators; familiarity with edge AI, SoC integration, or compute-in-memory architectures.
• Background spanning two or more of Automotive (ADAS/in-cabin), Robotics, Medical, Consumer, and Industrial imaging.
• Hands-on development of reference designs, evaluation kits, or proof-of-concept camera systems.
• Semiconductor-side experience with image sensors or ISP product definition.

What you'll bring

• 10+ years in camera systems, imaging, or embedded vision, including senior technical or team leadership.
• Deep expertise across the imaging signal chain: image sensors, optics, ISP, tuning and calibration, and image-quality measurement.
• Demonstrated success taking camera or vision systems from architecture and prototype through validation and volume production.
• Strong customer-facing technical skills — running evaluations, integration support, and troubleshooting with external engineering teams.
• Proven ability to author functional specifications, MRDs/PRDs, and prioritized requirements that engineering teams can execute against.
• Cross-functional fluency with silicon, hardware, firmware, software, and AI teams.

Preferred Qualifications

At Mythic, we foster a collaborative and respectful environment where people can do their best work. We hire smart, capable individuals, provide the tools and support they need, and trust them to deliver. Our team brings a wide range of experiences and perspectives, which we see as a strength in solving hard problems together. We value professionalism, creativity, and integrity, and strive to make Mythic a place where every employee feels they belong and can contribute meaningfully.

Mythic is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. It ensures equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, national origin, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.