Lead Camera Engineer

The role

You will own the full camera system of a wearable device. This includes sensor selection, optical design, image processing, and multi-camera capture.

What you will do

• Own the camera system end-to-end including sensor selection, optical design, and image quality.
• Drive part selection and benchmarking for image sensors and lens stacks.
• Drive the optical design including lens FOV, stack-up, and AR coating.
• Specify electrical and mechanical interfaces for the camera system.
• Validate field-of-view, blind spots, and seam overlap.
• Define calibration and stitching paths for future use cases.
• Set the image-quality bar and test methodology.
• Partner with the reliability lead on component-level reliability.
• Ship the product by the end of year.
• Help build and grow the camera team.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of camera engineering.
• At least one shipped consumer product where you owned the camera subsystem.
• Deep expertise in image sensor architectures and sensor interfaces.
• Deep expertise in image-processing pipelines.
• Demonstrated optical design experience for compact consumer products.
• Hands-on experience characterizing and tuning image quality.
• Direct experience driving camera component selection and benchmarking with second-source planning.
• Experience working with overseas camera module suppliers and driving DfM, calibration, and quality at volume.

Nice to have

• Deploying CV models or vision pipelines on dedicated low-power AI accelerators.
• Multi-camera systems including calibration, synchronization, stitching, panoramic, or stereo.
• Low-power image sensors for battery-constrained products.
• Computer-vision background such as VSLAM, scene understanding, or on-device inference.
• Experience navigating the social and privacy considerations of body-worn cameras.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Meaningful equity package
• 401(k) with company matching
• Health insurance
• Flexible PTO

Before you apply

• Evaluation completed within 14 days of first interview.
• Offer letter dispatched same day as go decision, valid for 10 days.
• Start date within 4 weeks of offer acceptance.

About the company

Sabi is a small team building a noninvasive wearable that turns thought into text using EEG/BCI technology. They are developing an AI companion wearable to create a direct link between mind and machine.