OpenAI · 17 hours ago
Camera Firmware Engineer, Consumer Products
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior LevelOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a Camera Firmware Engineer, you will own low-level camera enablement on custom hardware, developing and maintaining the firmware and software that ensure camera systems are reliable and ready for real-world deployment.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Bring up new camera sensors and modules on prototype and production boards, including link stability, sensor control, and correct power, reset, and clock sequencing
Develop and maintain low-level camera software, including sensor drivers, board configuration, and camera subsystem integration across hardware revisions
Enable and validate core capture paths for development and production, including RAW capture for debugging, still capture, and hardware-accelerated video encode and streaming with stable timestamps and long-duration reliability
Stand up camera control and repeatability features, including basic 3A loop exposure, manual overrides and locks, and deterministic presets to support validation and debugging
Build and maintain camera bring-up tooling, such as capture scripts, automated sweeps, manifests, and debugging utilities that make issues reproducible and easy to triage
Partner closely with electrical engineering, camera pipeline owners, and systems teams to define interfaces, unblock integration, and keep the camera stack stable as the device evolves
Qualification
Required
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 common camera hardware interfaces (for example, MIPI CSI and sensor control buses) and the practical realities of bring-up, including power, reset, clocking, and sequencing
Proven track record of building reliable capture paths and effective debug workflows that accelerate iteration through reproducible failures and well-scoped fixes
Preferred
Experience with common mobile or embedded SoC camera stacks and vendor frameworks
Experience integrating and debugging hardware acceleration blocks adjacent to camera pipelines, such as video encode and decode paths
Familiarity building higher-level capture pipelines (for example, GStreamer) on top of low-level camera enablement
Benefits
Relocation assistance
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
Founded in 2015
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
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2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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