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Camera Software Engineer, Consumer Devices

OpenAI · San Francisco

CHECKED 35M AGO

Frontier labonsite$347k–$385k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own camera enablement from early board bring-up to stable production capture.
  • Build reliable capture pipelines that bring AI into the physical world.

What they offer

  • Equity
  • Relocation assistance

Ideal candidate

Hands-on systems engineer who loves working close to hardware and chasing down tricky integration issues. You care about correctness, repeatability, and building debuggable foundations for production devices.

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, comfortable debugging across kernel and userspace boundaries
  • Hands-on understanding of camera hardware interfaces (e.g., MIPI CSI) including power, reset, clocking, and sequencing
  • Proven track record building reliable capture paths and effective debug workflows
remote policy
4 days per week in office

Lab profile

About OpenAI

Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.

What they build

  • ChatGPT
  • OpenAI API
  • Frontier AI models

Known for

  • Frontier-scale distributed ML training
  • Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
  • Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
  • AI alignment and safety research

Key facts

  • Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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