Sr. Image Scientist

**Sr. Image ScientistDepartment:** Product Design Services **FLSA Status:** Exempt **Reports to:** PDS Operations Manager **Pay Range:** $93,000 - $125,000 annually **Location:** Rochester, NY (onsite) **The Role:** D3 Embedded is seeking an experienced and innovative Senior Image Scientist to join our engineering team. In this senior-level role, you will lead the end-to-end development, optimization, and validation of advanced imaging systems, with deep ownership of camera calibration, ISP tuning, algorithm development, and image quality analysis. The Senior Image Scientist plays a critical role in shaping imaging architecture, guiding technical strategy, and ensuring delivery of high-performance embedded imaging solutions. This position requires hands-on expertise with embedded camera platforms, including hardware bring-up, driver configuration, and real-time system verification. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional engineering teams and customers, providing technical leadership, influencing design decisions, and driving continuous improvement across products and processes. **The Responsibilities** - Lead all aspects of the imaging chain including sensor and camera calibration, optics, ISP tuning, algorithm development, analysis, verification and validation, and technical customer support. - Own development and optimization of embedded camera systems and ISPs running on real-time operating systems or Embedded Linux on custom electronics. - Provide senior-level technical execution for hardware bring-up, driver and application-level configuration testing, imaging system verification, and system-level debugging. - Oversee camera module calibration, characterization, unit testing, image quality evaluation, and troubleshooting across multiple product lines. - Serve as a technical authority, providing direction and leadership for complex engineering programs and acting as a key technical liaison with customer engineering teams and program managers. - Support and influence project planning efforts including task scoping, work estimation, and risk identification. - Develop and evaluate engineering plans, criteria, and best practices for major projects and guide implementation across the team. - Perform development and testing in an advanced electronics and imaging laboratory environment. - Work with embedded Linux platforms, open-source Linux, associated SDKs, and hardware development kits such as NVIDIA, TI, and Intel. - Lead the design and development of camera interface boards and related tools. - Identify, develop, and deploy tools, methodologies, and processes that improve analysis capabilities, design reuse, and overall engineering efficiency. - Provide technical oversight through design reviews, architecture evaluations, and quality assessments. Document and present results from analyses, experiments, and system-level evaluations to internal teams and customers. - Mentor and coach less experienced engineers, co-ops, and interns; promote a culture of technical excellence and knowledge sharing. **Additional Responsibilities:** - Perform other duties as assigned. **The Right Person Will Have:** - 5+ years of relevant industry experience in imaging systems, embedded vision, or related fields. - Bachelor of Science in Imaging Science, Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline—or equivalent combination of education and experience. - Proven expertise in problem solving, debugging, and innovative technical thinking. - Strong ability to read schematics and troubleshoot digital hardware using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and related tools. - Experience writing embedded device drivers and debugging embedded platforms. - Solid understanding of embedded software/firmware development, including C and C++. - Advanced experience with Embedded Linux platforms, BSP configuration, kernel drivers, and device tree implementation. - Experience with GIT version control and GCC/GNU toolchains. - Dem…