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We’re explorers, pursuing society’s most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other.\nLife at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.\nAre you interested in developing amazing camera and video systems that operate at the core of real-world products?\nWe’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.\nYou’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.\nThe 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.\nWork 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.\nReports to: Senior Technical Director\nWhat You’ll Do\nArchitect and develop camera middleware and real-time video pipeline components across Axon products.\nBuild high-performance multimedia pipelines using GStreamer and platform-specific media frameworks.\nIntegrate image processing, computer vision, and ML algorithms into production camera pipelines.\nOptimize pipelines for latency, throughput, memory bandwidth, power, and stability.\nCollaborate with Camera HAL, firmware, image processing, and hardware teams on interfaces and system integration.\nDebug complex issues across middleware, camera frameworks, drivers, and hardware.\nProvide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and cross-team technical decisions.\nWhat You Bring\n10+ years of professional software engineering experience, primarily in C/C++.\nStrong experience with camera, video, multimedia, or high-throughput processing pipelines on Linux or embedded platforms.\nHands-on experience with GStreamer or comparable multimedia frameworks.\nStrong understanding of buffer management, zero-copy architectures, synchronization, multithreading, and real-time performance.\nStrong 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.\nExperience integrating image-processing or computer-vision components into production systems.\nAbility to debug across application, middleware, platform camera frameworks, and hardware interfaces.\nFamiliarity with embedded Linux development; experience with Yocto is beneficial.\nStrong software architecture, communication, and cross-team collaboration skills.\nBeneficial Experience\nExperience with Qualcomm camera platforms, Camera HAL, or CamX.\nExperience with robotics and ROS2 System Bus or equivalent inter-process communication protocols.\nKnowledge of H.264/H.265 codecs and hardware-accelerated video pipelines.\nExperience with camera ISP pipelines, image quality, or camera tuning.\nExperience with computer vision or ML-based imaging systems.\nExperience of designing and implementing image processing, CV and ML algorithms.\nFamiliarity with Android camera or multimedia frameworks.\nExperience with Rust, Go, Python, test automation, or camera-system simulation.\nAny background in photography, cinematography, colour grading and related areas are useful.\nDon’t meet every single requirement? That's ok. At Axon, we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer, better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve.\nStudies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If you’re excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.\nImportant Notes\nThe above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.\nSome roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.\nWe collect personal information from applicants to evaluate candidates for employment. You may request access, deletion, or exercise other CCPA rights at  or via our Axon Privacy Web Form. For more information, please see the Your California Privacy Rights section of our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.\nAxon’s mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axon’s impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.\nWe are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity and fosters inclusion. We’re committed to hiring the best talent - regardless of race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances - and empowering all of our employees so they can do their best work. If you have a disability or special need that requires assistance or accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email . Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. Axon will not respond to inquiries for other purposes.\nPhishing alert: Axon will never ask you to pay for any part of the hiring process, including training, equipment, or background checks. We do not make job offers via text message, WhatsApp, or instant messaging platforms without a formal interview process. All legitimate job openings are listed on our official careers page at https://www.axon.com/careers. 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