Imaging Engineer Technical Manager - Webcam

Imaging Engineer Technical Manager

Logitech is the sweet spot for people who want their actions to have a positive global impact while having the flexibility to do it in their own way.

The Personal Workspace Solution group from Logitech is committed to help people create and communicate their passion and work to the world, anytime anywhere. Putting users front and center, we strive to innovate and elevate their experiences. This is more than computer mice, keyboards, webcams and presentation remotes - it's about enabling the future beyond today's tools and in a sustainable way. Everything goes through great design and exceptional user experience conveyed in great hardware and elevated by software.

We are looking for an experienced Imaging Engineer Technical Manager to join the team responsible for Logitech's next-generation webcams. You will play a pivotal role in defining the visual experience of our products, taking them from initial concept through to mass production. As standards for video are constantly evolving, you will monitor their evolution and identify opportunities for Logitech to retain its competitive edge. You will stay on top of the latest innovation in both hardware for webcams (sensor, SoC, …) and equipment required to test and validate them.

Your contribution:

Be yourself. Be open. Stay hungry and humble. Collaborate. Challenge. Decide and do. These are the behaviors you'll need for success at Logitech. In this role you will:

1. Manage a team of image engineers and prioritize their tasks.
2. Establish a roadmap of innovation in collaboration with our main SoC vendors.
3. Collaborate with other functions to ensure timely delivery of projects with clearly defined quality criterias. Collaborate closely with firmware engineers, optical engineers, and other disciplines to integrate your tuning work into the embedded Linux build, ensuring a cohesive and stable imaging system.
4. Be hands-on with our latest hardware architecture. Contribute to the tuning of the image signal processor (ISP) for both RGB and IR sensors, ensuring we meet the rigorous standards required for Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Windows Hello certifications amongst others.
5. Take ownership of the webcam's ISP pipeline, fine-tuning parameters (Black Level, Demosaic, Gamma, CCM, 3DNR) to transform raw sensor data into the crystal-clear, vivid video that defines the Logitech experience.
6. Calibrate and optimize the vendor-provided auto exposure (AE) and auto white balance (AWB) algorithms, ensuring our webcams adapt seamlessly to challenging lighting conditions—from dim home offices to harsh, backlit windows.
7. Drive the tuning strategy for our IR sensors, prioritizing contrast, uniformity, and signal integrity to ensure flawless performance for Windows Hello facial recognition.
8. Serve as the IQ lead for compliance, ensuring our products meet and exceed the objective testing criteria required for Microsoft Teams, Zoom and other communication platform certification.
9. Work in a fast-paced environment, leveraging our state-of-the-art video lab to validate performance against both subjective and objective metrics. Utilize our video lab to execute a rigorous validation strategy, balancing objective data with subjective evaluations to deliver a product that feels as good as it measures.
10. Collaborate with FW/SW QA to ensure product quality during EVT, DVT, PVT stages. Work closely with TDEs to establish production test criteria and support debugging during pilot builds. Your theoretical knowledge and hands-on expertise in imaging will be applied to all video components of the webcam system resulting in optimized and balanced performance.

Your theoretical knowledge and hands-on expertise in imaging will be applied to all video components of the webcam system resulting in optimized and balanced performance.

Key qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in image signal processing (ISP) tuning for consumer electronics (webcams, IP cameras, action cameras/drones, or dashcams).
• Hands-on experience tuning ISPs on embedded SoCs. Acceptable: Ambarella, Novatek, HiSilicon, Realtek, or Qualcomm. A plus: Sigmastar.
• Deep understanding of color science, radiometry, photometry, and camera optics. Familiarity with imaging standards, certification and organizations, Rec.709, BT.2020, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Windows Hello, VCX, SPIE, ...
• Proven track record in tuning and developing algorithms for auto exposure, auto-focus, and auto white balance parameters (convergence speed, stability, weighting tables).
• Proficiency with image quality testing tools (Imatest, highly calibrated light sources, …) and familiarity with VCX testing protocols.
• Comfortable working in an embedded Linux and RTOS environments (shell scripting, command line tools, interacting with V4L2 drivers).

Education:

• MS Computer Science or equivalent with 7+ years of relevant working experience in consumer electronics (webcams, IP cameras, action cameras/drones, or dashcams).

Across Logitech we empower collaboration and foster play. We help teams collaborate/learn from anywhere, without compromising on productivity or continuity so it should be no surprise that most of our jobs are open to work from home from most locations. Our hybrid work model allows some employees to work remotely while others work on-premises. Within this structure, you may have teams or departments split between working remotely and working in-house. Logitech is an amazing place to work because it is full of authentic people who are inclusive by nature as well as by design. Being a global company, we value our diversity and celebrate all our differences. Don't meet every single requirement? Not a problem. If you feel you are the right candidate for the opportunity, we strongly recommend that you apply. We want to meet you!

We offer comprehensive and competitive benefits packages and working environments that are designed to be flexible and help you to care for yourself and your loved ones, now and in the future. We believe that good health means more than getting medical care when you need it. Logitech supports a culture that encourages individuals to achieve good physical, financial, emotional, intellectual and social wellbeing so we all can create, achieve and enjoy more and support our families.

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