Camera Software Engineer, Consumer Devices

OpenAI · Consumer Devices

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Metro: San Francisco Bay Area
Workplace: Hybrid
Level: Unspecified
Type: Full-time
Pay: $347K–$385K/yr (published by employer)
Posted: 10 months ago
Source: Ashby

What the posting covers

About the Team

The Consumer Products team at OpenAI builds end-to-end hardware and software systems that bring AI into the physical world. We work at the intersection of custom silicon, embedded systems, operating systems, and cloud services to deliver reliable,…

About the Role

As a Camera Firmware Engineer, you will own low-level camera enablement on custom hardware—from early board bring-up through stable production capture. You will develop and maintain the firmware and software that makes camera sensors reliable, controllable,…

In This Role, You Will

Bring up new camera sensors and modules on prototype and production boards, including link stability, sensor control, and correct power, reset, and clock sequencing. Develop and maintain low-level camera software, including sensor drivers, board…

You might thrive in this role if you

Deep experience shipping embedded camera systems, including sensor bring-up, driver development, and board-level debugging. Strong C/C++ experience with embedded or Linux-based systems; comfortable debugging across kernel and userspace boundaries. Hands-on…

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with common mobile or embedded SoC camera stacks and vendor frameworks. Experience integrating and debugging hardware acceleration blocks adjacent to camera pipelines, such as video encode and decode paths. Familiarity building higher-level capture…

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our…

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