Camera ISP Software Engineer, Consumer Products Job at OpenAI in Los Angeles
OpenAI, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Camera ISP Software Engineer, Consumer Products
The Consumer Products team at OpenAI builds and ships end-to-end hardware and software experiences that bring frontier AI into the physical world. We work across industrial design, hardware engineering, embedded systems, and AI research to create category-defining consumer devices that feel intuitive, reliable, and deeply integrated with OpenAI’s models.
Within this organization, the Camera team is responsible for delivering robust, production-ready imaging systems that operate under real-world constraints such as motion, power, latency, and manufacturing variation. Our work spans early silicon and board bring-up through mass production, and directly supports both user-facing experiences and on-device perception for AI-driven features.
We operate as a small, highly technical team with deep ownership, close cross-functional collaboration, and a strong bias toward shipping high-quality products rather than incremental demos.
About the Role
As a Camera ISP Software Engineer, you will own end-to-end ISP bring-up and tuning across prototype and production hardware. You’ll work across software tuning and hardware-accelerated pipelines to deliver stable, high-quality imaging under real-world constraints such as motion, power, and manufacturing variation.
This role is ideal for engineers who thrive in ambiguous early-stage environments, enjoy deep technical ownership, and take pride in shipping production-grade imaging systems. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of four days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will:
Own end-to-end ISP tuning and bring-up, from early prototypes through production hardware.
Tune core 3A and image-quality blocks including AE, AWB, AF, noise reduction (spatial and temporal), sharpening, tone mapping, color correction, HDR/WDR, flicker mitigation, lens shading, defect pixel correction, and related ISP stages.
Build repeatable capture and evaluation workflows, combining controlled lab sweeps with real-world validation.
Validate robustness across sensor, module, and manufacturing variation with clear, defensible success criteria.
Deliver production-grade tuning artifacts, including versioned tuning packs, parameter manifests, change logs, and curated RAW and processed datasets with supporting documentation.
Partner closely with camera firmware, systems, and hardware teams to debug pipelines, configure sensors, and resolve board-level and silicon-level issues as designs evolve.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Deep experience shipping ISP tuning for embedded or mobile camera products, from bring-up through production.
Strong fundamentals across 3A (AE/AWB/AF), noise modeling, sharpening and detail trade-offs, tone mapping, and color pipelines.
Proven ability to run data-driven tuning loops, including repeatable capture, rigorous evaluation, and disciplined versioning of tuning artifacts.
Hands-on experience debugging end-to-end camera pipelines on real hardware, including RAW capture, processed outputs, and hardware-accelerated paths.
Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and translate system-level constraints (power, latency, motion, reliability) into concrete tuning decisions and validation plans.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with common mobile or embedded SoC camera stacks and vendor frameworks.
Experience tuning imaging pipelines explicitly for downstream machine-learning consumers, with iteration driven by model feedback.
Experience designing motion-aware temporal imaging strategies that remain stable under rapid device or scene motion.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
Compensation
$325K + Offers Equity
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In Summary: Camera ISP Software Engineer is responsible for delivering robust, production-ready imaging systems that operate under real-world constraints such as motion, power, latency, and manufacturing variation . The Consumer Products team builds and ships end-to-end hardware and software experiences that bring frontier AI into the physical world .
En Español: El equipo de productos del consumidor en OpenAI construye y entrega experiencias de hardware y software de extremo a extremo que llevan la inteligencia artificial fronteriza al mundo físico. Trabajamos en diseño industrial, ingeniería de hardware, sistemas integrados e investigación de AI para crear dispositivos de consumo definidos por categorías que se sientan intuitivos, confiables y profundamente integrados con los modelos de OpenAIs. Dentro de esta organización, el equipo de cámara es responsable de entregar robustos sistemas de imagen listos para producción que operan bajo restricciones reales como movimiento, potencia, latencia y variación de fabricación. Nuestro trabajo abarca el silicio temprano y tablero a través de la producción masiva, y apoya directamente tanto las experiencias frente al usuario como la percepción dentro del dispositivo para disfrutar de características impulsadas por orgullo. Como un pequeño equipo técnico de producción de alta calidad con propiedad transversal, colaboración ambiguosa, funcionamos bajo una amplia gama de equipos técnicos de construcción de piezas, así como desarrollando soluciones técnicas más cercanas a lo largo del proceso de envío de imágenes y servicios electrónicos. Este papel está basado en San Francisco, CA. Utilizamos un modelo de trabajo híbrido de cuatro días por semana en la oficina y ofrecemos asistencia para la reubicación a los nuevos empleados. En este papel, usted: Construirá el ajuste e implementación del ISP de extremo a extremo, desde los primeros prototipos hasta el hardware de producción. Tune core 3A y bloques de calidad de imagen incluyendo AE, AWB, AF, reducción de ruido (espacial y temporal), afilado, mapeo de tono, corrección de color, HDR/WDR, mitigación de parpadeos, sombreado de lentes, defecto de pixel, y etapas relacionadas con ISP. La IA es una herramienta extremadamente poderosa que debe ser creada con la seguridad y las necesidades humanas en su núcleo, y para lograr nuestra misión, debemos abarcar y valorar las muchas perspectivas diferentes, voces y experiencias que forman todo el espectro de la humanidad. Somos un empleador de igualdad de oportunidades y no discriminamos por raza, religión, color, origen nacional, sexo, orientación sexual, edad, estatus de veterano, discapacidad, información genética u otra característica legalmente protegida aplicable. Compensación $ 325K + Ofrece Equity #J-18808-Ljbffr
The Consumer Products team at OpenAI builds and ships end-to-end hardware and software experiences that bring frontier AI into the physical world. We work across industrial design, hardware engineering, embedded systems, and AI research to create category-defining consumer devices that feel intuitive, reliable, and deeply integrated with OpenAI’s models.
Within this organization, the Camera team is responsible for delivering robust, production-ready imaging systems that operate under real-world constraints such as motion, power, latency, and manufacturing variation. Our work spans early silicon and board bring-up through mass production, and directly supports both user-facing experiences and on-device perception for AI-driven features.
We operate as a small, highly technical team with deep ownership, close cross-functional collaboration, and a strong bias toward shipping high-quality products rather than incremental demos.
About the Role
As a Camera ISP Software Engineer, you will own end-to-end ISP bring-up and tuning across prototype and production hardware. You’ll work across software tuning and hardware-accelerated pipelines to deliver stable, high-quality imaging under real-world constraints such as motion, power, and manufacturing variation.
This role is ideal for engineers who thrive in ambiguous early-stage environments, enjoy deep technical ownership, and take pride in shipping production-grade imaging systems. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of four days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will:
Own end-to-end ISP tuning and bring-up, from early prototypes through production hardware.
Tune core 3A and image-quality blocks including AE, AWB, AF, noise reduction (spatial and temporal), sharpening, tone mapping, color correction, HDR/WDR, flicker mitigation, lens shading, defect pixel correction, and related ISP stages.
Build repeatable capture and evaluation workflows, combining controlled lab sweeps with real-world validation.
Validate robustness across sensor, module, and manufacturing variation with clear, defensible success criteria.
Deliver production-grade tuning artifacts, including versioned tuning packs, parameter manifests, change logs, and curated RAW and processed datasets with supporting documentation.
Partner closely with camera firmware, systems, and hardware teams to debug pipelines, configure sensors, and resolve board-level and silicon-level issues as designs evolve.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Deep experience shipping ISP tuning for embedded or mobile camera products, from bring-up through production.
Strong fundamentals across 3A (AE/AWB/AF), noise modeling, sharpening and detail trade-offs, tone mapping, and color pipelines.
Proven ability to run data-driven tuning loops, including repeatable capture, rigorous evaluation, and disciplined versioning of tuning artifacts.
Hands-on experience debugging end-to-end camera pipelines on real hardware, including RAW capture, processed outputs, and hardware-accelerated paths.
Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and translate system-level constraints (power, latency, motion, reliability) into concrete tuning decisions and validation plans.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with common mobile or embedded SoC camera stacks and vendor frameworks.
Experience tuning imaging pipelines explicitly for downstream machine-learning consumers, with iteration driven by model feedback.
Experience designing motion-aware temporal imaging strategies that remain stable under rapid device or scene motion.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
Compensation
$325K + Offers Equity
#J-18808-Ljbffr
In Summary: Camera ISP Software Engineer is responsible for delivering robust, production-ready imaging systems that operate under real-world constraints such as motion, power, latency, and manufacturing variation . The Consumer Products team builds and ships end-to-end hardware and software experiences that bring frontier AI into the physical world .
En Español: El equipo de productos del consumidor en OpenAI construye y entrega experiencias de hardware y software de extremo a extremo que llevan la inteligencia artificial fronteriza al mundo físico. Trabajamos en diseño industrial, ingeniería de hardware, sistemas integrados e investigación de AI para crear dispositivos de consumo definidos por categorías que se sientan intuitivos, confiables y profundamente integrados con los modelos de OpenAIs. Dentro de esta organización, el equipo de cámara es responsable de entregar robustos sistemas de imagen listos para producción que operan bajo restricciones reales como movimiento, potencia, latencia y variación de fabricación. Nuestro trabajo abarca el silicio temprano y tablero a través de la producción masiva, y apoya directamente tanto las experiencias frente al usuario como la percepción dentro del dispositivo para disfrutar de características impulsadas por orgullo. Como un pequeño equipo técnico de producción de alta calidad con propiedad transversal, colaboración ambiguosa, funcionamos bajo una amplia gama de equipos técnicos de construcción de piezas, así como desarrollando soluciones técnicas más cercanas a lo largo del proceso de envío de imágenes y servicios electrónicos. Este papel está basado en San Francisco, CA. Utilizamos un modelo de trabajo híbrido de cuatro días por semana en la oficina y ofrecemos asistencia para la reubicación a los nuevos empleados. En este papel, usted: Construirá el ajuste e implementación del ISP de extremo a extremo, desde los primeros prototipos hasta el hardware de producción. Tune core 3A y bloques de calidad de imagen incluyendo AE, AWB, AF, reducción de ruido (espacial y temporal), afilado, mapeo de tono, corrección de color, HDR/WDR, mitigación de parpadeos, sombreado de lentes, defecto de pixel, y etapas relacionadas con ISP. La IA es una herramienta extremadamente poderosa que debe ser creada con la seguridad y las necesidades humanas en su núcleo, y para lograr nuestra misión, debemos abarcar y valorar las muchas perspectivas diferentes, voces y experiencias que forman todo el espectro de la humanidad. Somos un empleador de igualdad de oportunidades y no discriminamos por raza, religión, color, origen nacional, sexo, orientación sexual, edad, estatus de veterano, discapacidad, información genética u otra característica legalmente protegida aplicable. Compensación $ 325K + Ofrece Equity #J-18808-Ljbffr