Senior Imaging Software Engineer

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Are you interested in developing amazing camera and video systems that operate at the core of real-world products?

We’re looking for a Senior Imaging Software Engineer to join our imaging team in Tampere. In this role, you’ll architect and develop the software pipelines that process, transform, and deliver video across a range of Axon products, including body cameras, dash cameras, drones, and future imaging platforms.

You’ll work primarily at the camera middleware and video pipeline layer, bridging the underlying camera platform with image processing, encoding, streaming, computer vision, and application-level consumers. You’ll collaborate closely with engineers working on camera firmware, sensor integration, image quality, computational photography, and product applications.

The right candidate is comfortable working across the camera stack when needed, but is particularly strong at building robust, high-performance C/C++ multimedia and imaging systems on embedded platforms.

Work Location: This role is based out of our Tampere office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success. Reports to: Senior Technical Director

• Architect and develop camera middleware and real-time video pipeline components across Axon products.

• Build high-performance multimedia pipelines using GStreamer and platform-specific media frameworks.

• Integrate image processing, computer vision, and ML algorithms into production camera pipelines.

• Optimize pipelines for latency, throughput, memory bandwidth, power, and stability.

• Collaborate with Camera HAL, firmware, image processing, and hardware teams on interfaces and system integration.

• Debug complex issues across middleware, camera frameworks, drivers, and hardware.

• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and cross-team technical decisions.

What You Bring

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, primarily in C/C++.

• Strong experience with camera, video, multimedia, or high-throughput processing pipelines on Linux or embedded platforms.

• Hands-on experience with GStreamer or comparable multimedia frameworks.

• Strong understanding of buffer management, zero-copy architectures, synchronization, multithreading, and real-time performance.

• Strong software architecture and cross-team collaboration skills, with the ability to apply modern AI-assisted and automated development workflows to embedded software development, debugging, and validation.

• Experience integrating image-processing or computer-vision components into production systems.

• Ability to debug across application, middleware, platform camera