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Senior Linux Kernel Camera/ISP Driver Engineer-W2 only

Steneral Consulting
Palo Alto, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 6/5/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/3/2026
Senior Linux Kernel Camera/ISP Driver Engineer

Palo Alto, CA - onsite at least 4 days per week and local highly preferred

Required Qualifications

10 years of embedded systems experience, with a minimum of 5 years dedicated to Linux kernel driver development.

Expert-level C programming in kernel space, including memory management, locking primitives (mutexes, spinlocks, RCU), workqueues, and interrupt handling.

Production-level experience with the Linux media stack (V4L2 ioctls, Media Controller entities, and videobuf2).

Hands-on experience with MIPI CSI-2 sensor and ISP bring-up.

Strong knowledge of DMA-BUF, scatter-gather mapping, cache coherency, and kernel debugging tools (JTAG, GDB, ftrace, lockdep).

Solid understanding of Linux power management (runtime PM and suspend/resume).

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with vendor-specific GPU driver stacks, TTM memory models, and firmware mailbox protocols.

Understanding of camera sensor controls, exposure timing, and 3A tuning pipelines.

Experience with automotive-grade reliability standards (such as ISO 26262).

A track record of active contributions to the upstream Linux kernel.

Salary : $55 - $60

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