Base Salary
$293k - $325k/yr
Responsibilities
- Bring up camera sensors and modules on prototype and production boards, including link stability, sensor control, and power, reset, and clock sequencing.
- Develop and maintain sensor drivers, board configuration, and camera subsystem integration across hardware revisions.
- Enable and validate RAW, still-capture, hardware-accelerated video encode, and streaming paths with stable timestamps and long-duration reliability.
- Implement camera control and repeatability features, including exposure loops, manual overrides and locks, and deterministic presets.
- Build and maintain capture scripts, automated sweeps, manifests, and debugging utilities for reproducible issue triage.
- Partner with electrical engineering, camera pipeline, and systems teams to define interfaces and maintain camera-stack stability.
Requirements
- 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 and the ability to debug across kernel and userspace boundaries.
- Hands-on understanding of camera hardware interfaces such as MIPI CSI and sensor control buses, including power, reset, clocking, and sequencing.
- Proven ability to build reliable capture paths and reproducible debugging workflows.
- Experience with mobile or embedded SoC camera stacks and vendor frameworks such as Qualcomm, Samsung, or MediaTek is preferred.
- Experience integrating and debugging hardware acceleration blocks adjacent to camera pipelines, including video encode and decode paths, is preferred.
- Familiarity with higher-level capture pipelines such as GStreamer is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with four days per week in the San Francisco office.
- Relocation assistance is offered to new employees.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.