Camera Software Engineer, Consumer Devices

The role

You will own low-level camera enablement on custom hardware from early board bring-up through stable production capture. You will develop and maintain firmware and software to make camera sensors reliable, controllable, and debuggable.

What you will do

• Bring up new camera sensors and modules on prototype and production boards
• Develop and maintain low-level camera software including sensor drivers and board configuration
• Enable and validate core capture paths for development and production
• Stand up camera control and repeatability features
• Build and maintain camera bring-up tooling
• Partner with electrical engineering, camera pipeline owners, and systems teams

Required qualifications

• Deep experience shipping embedded camera systems
• Strong C/C++ experience with embedded or Linux-based systems
• Hands-on understanding of common camera hardware interfaces
• Proven track record of building reliable capture paths and effective debug workflows

Nice to have

• Experience with common mobile or embedded SoC camera stacks and vendor frameworks
• Experience integrating and debugging hardware acceleration blocks adjacent to camera pipelines
• Familiarity building higher-level capture pipelines (for example, GStreamer) on top of low-level camera enablement

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Consumer Products team builds end-to-end hardware and software systems that bring AI into the physical world.