Camera Software Engineer, Consumer Devices
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 35M AGO
Frontier labonsite$347k–$385k
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