The opportunity
The Consumer Products team at OpenAI builds end-to-end hardware and software systems that bring AI into the physical world. We work at the intersection of custom silicon, embedded systems, operating systems, and cloud services to deliver reliable, production-ready devices at scale.
What you'll do
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.
What they're looking for
- 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.
