Senior Manager, Camera Hardware

About Huawei

Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. With integrated solutions across four key domains – telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud services – we are committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.

At Huawei, innovation focuses on customer needs. We invest heavily in basic research, concentrating on technological breakthroughs that drive the world forward. We have 207,000 employees, and we operate in more than 170 countries and regions. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.

We seek and reward talent! At Huawei, if you are dedicated to creativity, engagement of technical risks and delivery of target-driven results, your efforts will be rewarded with outstanding career prospects.

About Huawei Finland R&D

With 28 sites across Europe and over 2000 researchers, Huawei’s European Research Institute (ERI) oversees fundamental and applied technology research, academic research cooperation projects, and strategic technical planning across our network of European R&D facilities. Huawei Finland Research Center was established in 2012. At our sites in Helsinki and Tampere, you will have an outstanding opportunity to be part of the leading research and development of future smart devices. We offer a career in a forward-looking industrial research team with a solid track record in innovation and publication and delivering its result as factual contributions to on-the-market devices.

This position will lead the Tampere Camera Lab hardware team consisting of about 15 specialists. The team has world class capabilities in camera module technologies like optics, actuators, camera module mechanics and camera system including state of the art laboratory facilities for optics and camera module measurements. The focus is in camera technology innovations for Huawei smartphones with 2+ years’ timeframe and develop them from idea to a functioning prototype. The challenge is to come up with new ideas to further enhance the imaging performance of Huawei smartphones imaging capabilities both in photography and machine vision areas.

Your leadership will give direction and priorities to the team. You will form the direction through your excellent knowledge on camera technologies and smartphone imaging competitive situation, continuous dialogue between Huawei teams in Europe and China and innovations together with the team members.

Main Responsibilities:

• Day to day work leading the team towards agreed goals

• Technical research and development of camera prototypes for mobile phones

• Innovating new technologies and solutions and developing prototypes of new concepts. Driving successful integration of developed prototypes into products to achieve competitive advantage in the market

• Provide industry insight and analysis of low-level technologies in the domain

• Support planning of future technology development and road-map

• Cooperate with Huawei headquarter to build camera competitiveness to achieve industry-leading camera performance

Qualifications and Requirements:

• MSc or higher education level in suitable engineering domain

• Knowledge in photography camera system overall: Optics, image sensor, actuators, electrical hardware and understanding of inter-dependencies between them

• Track record in camera hardware development and team leading, minimum 10 years of relevant working experience

• Understanding of novel vision systems outside photography: Depth, spectral, thermal imaging

• Basic knowledge of image processing

• Project management experience in multicultural environment

• Experience of collaborating with suppliers: Communication, work setup, defining project targets and leading the discussion towards those

• Basic knowledge of commercial contracts and related legal questions

• Supply chain and cost understanding

• Mobile phone industry knowledge and strategic understanding. Preferably experience of successfully introducing new camera technologies in mobile phones. Understanding competitive situation in smartphone camera technologies.

Skills:

• Languages: Full professional proficiency in English. Finnish and Chinese can be an advantage.

• Standard IT skills: Office tools, communication tools, presentation tools

• Management skills: Team leadership, target setting and performance management of team members. Interpersonal and leadership skills to bring out the best of team members.

• Independent and analytical thinking: ability to break down complex problems to manageable tasks and delegate or execute them

• Cultural awareness and ability to effectively communicate with people from different cultures

• Excellent communication skills, both spoken and written

• Innovation: capability to come up with unique solutions to camera technology challenges. Deep understanding of camera technologies and capability to find new opportunities in the highly competitive camera industry.

Location & Type of Contract: Tampere, Finland. This full-time employee position.

We offer a position in a forward-looking industrial research team, with a solid track record in both innovation and publication as well as delivering its result as factual contributions to on-the market devices. Huawei offers opportunity to learn from the best of mobile industry. Working at Huawei in international atmosphere is exciting and the opportunity to develop your skills and competences is endless. As we are second largest mobile phone brand in the world, in a long term you have opportunity to relocate around the world. Are you ready for the challenge?