# Camera Firmware Engineer, Consumer Products
**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Salary:** $293K-$325K
**Skills:** C++, C, Linux, Mipi Csi, Embedded Systems, Camera Sensors, Firmware, Sensor Drivers, Gstreamer, Video Encode
**Posted:** 2025-12-23
> Owns low-level camera firmware enablement on custom hardware, from board bring-up to production capture. Develops reliable sensor drivers, capture paths, and debugging tools using strong C/C++ skills on embedded Linux systems.
## Job Description
## In This Role, You Will
- 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.

## You might thrive in this role if you:
- 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 Qualifications
- 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.
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