Camera Firmware Engineer, Consumer Devices
About the Team 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.
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Camera Firmware Engineer, Consumer Devices at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About the Team 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.
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- 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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