--- title: 'Principal Camera & Sensor Applications Engineer at Mythic' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/principal-camera-sensor-applications-engineer-mythic-palo-alto-a9nhp5ykhgfs' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Principal Camera & Sensor Applications Engineer at Mythic - **Company:** Mythic - **Location:** Palo Alto, CA - **Compensation:** $180k–$270k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-09-04 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/mythic-ai.com/37df95fb-a05e-48f2-a11a-08a0ad712ab7 ## Job description The Principal Camera & Sensor Applications Engineer is the technical front line between Mythic's silicon and the customers who will build products on it. The role leads initial technical engagements to understand customer imaging, sensing, and embedded-AI use cases, translates those needs into measurable system requirements, and builds the demonstrations and reference designs that prove Mythic's analog compute advantage in a real camera system. Internally, the role is the sensor and camera-system subject-matter expert — identifying where Mythic technology adds value across automotive, robotics, medical, consumer, and industrial applications, and converting field insight into MRDs, PRDs, and prioritized engineering requirements. The position is deliberately complementary to the Director, Sensor System Engineering role: where that role owns platform architecture and integration from the core HW/SW side, this role owns the customer-facing and applications side — engagement, requirements capture, demos and evaluation kits, design-in support, and system-level validation criteria. Together they close the loop between what customers need and what the Gen2 roadmap delivers. ## What you'll do External/Customer-Facing - Lead initial technical engagements to understand customer imaging, sensing, and embedded-AI use cases, system architectures, and product constraints. - Translate customer needs into measurable requirements for image quality, AI performance, latency, power, reliability, interfaces, and system cost. - Define and develop customer demonstrations, evaluation kits, reference designs, and proof-of-concept systems integrating sensors with Mythic technology. - Support customers through technical evaluation, system integration, troubleshooting, and design-in. Internal-Facing - Serve as the sensor and camera-system subject-matter expert, identifying where Mythic technology can add value across automotive, robotics, medical, consumer, and industrial applications. - Translate system and customer requirements into MRDs, PRDs, functional specifications, and prioritized engineering requirements. - Work closely with silicon, hardware, software, and AI teams to assess feasibility, identify capability gaps, and guide product-roadmap decisions. - Define system-level validation plans and success criteria covering image quality, AI accuracy, latency, power, reliability, and overall customer experience. ## What you'll bring - 10+ years in camera systems, imaging, or embedded vision, including senior technical or team leadership. - Deep expertise across the imaging signal chain: image sensors, optics, ISP, tuning and calibration, and image-quality measurement. - Demonstrated success taking camera or vision systems from architecture and prototype through validation and volume production. - Strong customer-facing technical skills — running evaluations, integration support, and troubleshooting with external engineering teams. - Proven ability to author functional specifications, MRDs/PRDs, and prioritized requirements that engineering teams can execute against. - Cross-functional fluency with silicon, hardware, firmware, software, and AI teams. ## Preferred Qualifications - Experience deploying vision models on embedded or specialized AI accelerators; familiarity with edge AI, SoC integration, or compute-in-memory architectures. - Background spanning two or more of Automotive (ADAS/in-cabin), Robotics, Medical, Consumer, and Industrial imaging. - Hands-on development of reference designs, evaluation kits, or proof-of-concept camera systems. - Semiconductor-side experience with image sensors or ISP product definition. ## About Mythic ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Mythic is a semiconductor company developing analog compute-in-memory (CIM) processing units that deliver up to 100x greater energy efficiency for AI inference at the edge, in automotive, and in the data center. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C; total funding $290.4M as of 2021) - **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States (with offices in Silicon Valley, Vancouver, and Bangalore) - **Founded**: 2012 - **Founders**: Mike Henry, Dave Fick, and Laura Fick (co‑founder and Chief Analog Compute Architect) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Semiconductor manufacturing – AI hardware accelerators - **Target customers**: B2B – OEMs and system integrators in automotive, defense, robotics, industrial IoT, and enterprise data centers - **Mission statement**: “Enable a new era of AI performance and innovation by making it easier and more affordable to deploy powerful AI solutions, from the data center to the edge device.” ## Products & Services - **Mythic APU (Analog Processing Unit)**: A chip built on analog compute-in-memory architecture that stores AI model weights inside flash memory and performs computation directly at the source, eliminating the energy wasted by moving data between processor and memory. Delivers up to 100x system‑level performance‑per‑watt‑per‑dollar vs. conventional digital/GPU inference. Available today for edge and enterprise deployments. - **Mythic Software Platform**: A unified hardware/software stack that simplifies deploying AI models on the APU, including compilers, runtimes, and model optimization tools. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: $14.1M annual revenue (2026 estimate); $290.4M total funding raised across 8 rounds, including a $70M Series C in 2021 led by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and BlackRock, with earlier rounds led by SBVA (SoftBank) and Valor Equity Partners. - **Notable Investors / Partners**: BlackRock, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Valor Equity Partners, SBVA (SoftBank). The team includes veterans from NVIDIA, ON Semiconductor, and Luminar. - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew 46.4% YoY (to ~42 employees as of 2026). - Acquired Videantis (Jan 2026), a German AI processor company whose silicon is already running in 30 million production vehicles, giving Mythic an instant automotive ADAS footprint. - Active job postings for 18 open roles across hardware, software, and corporate functions. - Expanding into India with a VP of Mythic India and a Bangalore office. ## Competitive Advantages - **Analog Compute-in-Memory**: Eliminates the Von Neumann bottleneck by computing in analog directly where data is stored, achieving up to 100x better energy efficiency than traditional digital or GPU inference. - **Automotive‑Grade from Day One**: The Videantis acquisition provides proven, scalable ADAS/AD platforms already deployed in millions of vehicles, with customers like Bosch, Continental, and Valeo. - **Proven Silicon**: Mythic’s APU is operational and available today, not theoretical. - **Deep Talent Pool**: Team includes experts from NVIDIA, ON Semiconductor, Cisco, and leading chip companies, with a strong mix of analog, digital, and AI expertise. ## Strategic Focus - **Scale the Automotive Business**: Leverage the Videantis acquisition to become a major player in automotive ADAS and autonomous driving compute. - **Expand into Defense and Industrial**: Target high‑reliability, low‑power AI applications in defense, robotics, and industrial IoT. - **Data Center Edge**: Deliver efficient inference for enterprise AI workloads that cannot afford the power cost of traditional GPUs. - **Grow Global Team**: Build out software, hardware, and field engineering teams, particularly in India and the U.S. ## Why Work Here - **Impactful Mission**: Work at the frontier of AI hardware, solving the fundamental energy efficiency problem in AI compute. - **Collaborative, Results‑Focused Culture**: Mythic describes itself as a “collaborative, results‑focused team where everyone has a chance to contribute and lead.” - **Rapid Growth**: 46% YoY headcount growth and a recently acquired company signal strong momentum and career growth opportunities. - **Diverse Technical Challenges**: Roles span chip design, compiler engineering, AI algorithms, firmware, and systems engineering. - **Hybrid/Office Policy**: Some roles are listed as hybrid (e.g., Palo Alto, Austin) or fully on‑site; exact policy varies by position. The company has offices in Austin, Silicon Valley, and Vancouver, with a growing presence in Bangalore. - **Notable Perks**: Not explicitly stated, but working at a well‑funded, pre‑IPO startup in the AI hardware space typically offers equity, competitive compensation, and the chance to shape the future of computing. ## Sources 1. [Mythic Official Website](https://www.mythic.ai/) 2. [Mythic Careers Page (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/mythic-ai.com) 3. [Mythic Team Page](https://www.mythic.ai/company) 4. [Mythic LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mythic-ai) 5. 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