OpenAI
Camera Software Engineer, Consumer Devices
About this role
OpenAI is seeking a Camera Software Engineer to own low-level camera firmware and driver development for custom consumer hardware devices. You'll work across the full lifecycle from prototype bring-up through production, building reliable capture pipelines and debugging tools that enable AI-powered devices.
What you'll do
- Bring up new camera sensors and modules on prototype and production boards, including link stability, power sequencing, and sensor control
- Develop and maintain low-level camera drivers, board configuration, and subsystem integration across hardware revisions
- Enable and validate core capture paths including RAW, still, and hardware-accelerated video with stable timestamps
- Implement camera control features such as 3A exposure loops, manual overrides, and deterministic presets for validation
- Build camera bring-up tooling including capture scripts, automated test sweeps, and debugging utilities
- Partner with electrical engineering and systems teams to define interfaces and keep the camera stack stable
What they're looking for
- Embedded camera systems and sensor bring-up experience
- C/C++ programming for embedded and Linux systems
- Camera hardware interfaces (MIPI CSI, sensor control buses)
- Kernel and userspace debugging across system boundaries
- Power, reset, clock sequencing, and board-level troubleshooting
- Experience with mobile or embedded SoC camera stacks
- Hardware acceleration integration (video encode/decode)
- Higher-level capture pipeline tools (e.g., GStreamer)
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with 4 days per week in San Francisco office
- Relocation assistance available for new employees
- Work on cutting-edge AI hardware products
- Cross-functional collaboration with electrical engineering and systems teams
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OpenAI
OpenAI builds AI infrastructure and products, including large-scale data center campuses for AI computing and generative AI applications for enterprise customers. The company is hiring civil engineers, project engineers, electrical design engineers, data center R&D engineers, and AI deployment engineers to expand its infrastructure capabilities and help customers deploy AI solutions.
View all jobs at OpenAILikely interview questions
- Walk us through your experience bringing up a new camera sensor on a prototype board—what were the biggest challenges around power sequencing, clocking, or link stability, and how did you debug them?
- Describe your experience with MIPI CSI or other camera hardware interfaces. How have you diagnosed and fixed integration issues at the sensor control bus level?