Verification & Validation Engineer

Verification & Validation Engineer — Multimodal AI
Contract

We are seeking a Systems Validation Engineer to own multi-sensor (e.g. vision/audio) system validation for next-generation wearables. The core of the role is building test capability that does not yet exist, especially for HW image quality that feeds on-device AI features. A significant part of the job is characterizing camera hardware performance in ways that predict whether those AI features will work, then building the setups, methods and automation to measure it. Established image-quality expertise is the foundation you bring — applied through targeted studies and cross-functional optimization rather than routine metric-by-metric validation. 

•  Masters Degree with 6-10 years of experience and background in Imaging Science,Computer Science, Image Processing, Computer vision, Optics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, with substantial relevant industry experience in ISP, computer vision or Image Quality Testing.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience validating consumer imaging systems against objective image quality metrics, with working knowledge of industry image quality test protocols, charts and evaluation tools.
• Practical under
• standing of how vision AI features consume camera output — enough to design tests that expose camera-side limitations, and to reason about accuracy, false detections, and the conditions under which a feature degrades. Model development experience is not required.
• Strong Python, with demonstrated experience building test automation and image or video analysis tooling, not only running existing scripts.
• Hands-on optical lab capability: creating, aligning, calibrating and maintaining sensitive measurement setups, working with controlled illumination, targets, opto-mechanics and motion control components.
• Comfortable working on pre-production hardware: device bring-up, flashing, shell scripting, log capture and scripted data acquisition.
• Strong analytical judgement and clear reporting. You can explain a measurement, and defend it or revisit it and drive towards clarity when your result is challenged.
• Able to work with ambiguity, incomplete specifications and shifting priorities, and to juggle competing requests from a large cross-functional team.
• Working knowledge of camera geometric calibration — interpreting and applying an intrinsic/distortion calibration file to dewarp imagery (e.g. with OpenCV), and familiarity with camera–IMU and cross-sensor temporal synchronization