Camera ISP Software Engineer, Consumer Products Job at The Rundown AI, Inc. in L
The Rundown AI, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, United States
About the Team
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.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non‑compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
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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 at OpenAI builds and ships end-to-end hardware and software experiences that bring frontier AI into the physical world .
En Español: El equipo de productos para el consumidor en OpenAI construye y entrega experiencias de hardware y software de extremo a extremo que traen inteligencia artificial fronteriza al mundo físico. Trabajamos en diseño industrial, ingeniería de hardware, sistemas integrados e investigación de IA para crear dispositivos de consumo definidos por categorías que se sientan intuitivos, confiables y profundamente integrados con los modelos de OpenAI. Dentro de esta organización, el equipo de cámara es responsable de entregar robustos sistemas de imagen listos para la producción que operan bajo restricciones del mundo real como movimiento, potencia, latencia y variación de fabricación. Nuestro trabajo abarca el silicio temprano y la creación de placas a través de la producción masiva, y soporta directamente las experiencias orientadas al usuario y la percepción en dispositivo para características impulsadas. Como un equipo técnico muy pequeño, somos capaces de producir productos con una gran propiedad, colaboración interfuncional cercana y sesgo hacia un motor de envío de alta calidad. Trabajará a través de tuning de software y tuberías aceleradas por hardware para ofrecer imágenes estables y de alta calidad bajo restricciones del mundo real como movimiento, potencia y variación de fabricación. Este papel es ideal para los ingenieros que prosperan en ambiguos entornos tempranos, disfrutan de una profunda propiedad técnica y se enorgullecen de enviar sistemas de imagen de grado de producción. 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 sintonización e integración del ISP desde los primeros prototipos hasta el hardware de producción. Tune core 3A y bloques de calidad de imagen incluidos AE, AWB, AF, reducción de ruido (espacial y temporal), afilado, cartografía de tono, corrección de color, HDR/WDR, mitigación de parpadeos, sombreamiento de lentes, defecto pixel debugging, y etapas relacionadas con ISP. Construye flujos de trabajo de captura y evaluación de imágenes constantes, combinando barridas controladas con validación real. La IA es una herramienta extremadamente poderosa que debe ser creada con seguridad y 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. Se administrarán verificaciones antecedentes para los solicitantes de acuerdo a la ley vigente, y se considerará coherente con esas leyes, incluida la Ordenanza Justa de San Francisco, la Ordenación Justa del Condado de Los Ángeles para Empleadores de Canceles Justos, la Ley de Oportunidades justas para Empregadores, y los candidatos basados en California, Estados Unidos. Para los trabajadores no incorporados del Condado de Los Ángeles: creemos razonablemente que el historial penal puede tener una relación directa, adversa y negativa con las siguientes tareas laborales, lo que podría resultar en la retirada de una oferta condicional de empleo: proteger el hardware informático confiado a usted contra robo, pérdida o daño; devolver todo el hardware computarizado en su posesión (incluyendo los datos contenidos en él) al término del trabajo o final de la asignación; y mantener la confidencialidad de información privada, confidencial y no pública. Para notificar a OpenAI que cree que esta publicación de trabajo es incompatible, envíe un informe a través de este formulario. No se proporcionará respuesta a consultas no relacionadas con la publicación de empleo. Estamos comprometidos a proporcionar adaptaciones razonables a solicitantes con discapacidades, y las solicitudes pueden ser enviadas mediante este enlace.
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.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non‑compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
#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 at OpenAI builds and ships end-to-end hardware and software experiences that bring frontier AI into the physical world .
En Español: El equipo de productos para el consumidor en OpenAI construye y entrega experiencias de hardware y software de extremo a extremo que traen inteligencia artificial fronteriza al mundo físico. Trabajamos en diseño industrial, ingeniería de hardware, sistemas integrados e investigación de IA para crear dispositivos de consumo definidos por categorías que se sientan intuitivos, confiables y profundamente integrados con los modelos de OpenAI. Dentro de esta organización, el equipo de cámara es responsable de entregar robustos sistemas de imagen listos para la producción que operan bajo restricciones del mundo real como movimiento, potencia, latencia y variación de fabricación. Nuestro trabajo abarca el silicio temprano y la creación de placas a través de la producción masiva, y soporta directamente las experiencias orientadas al usuario y la percepción en dispositivo para características impulsadas. Como un equipo técnico muy pequeño, somos capaces de producir productos con una gran propiedad, colaboración interfuncional cercana y sesgo hacia un motor de envío de alta calidad. Trabajará a través de tuning de software y tuberías aceleradas por hardware para ofrecer imágenes estables y de alta calidad bajo restricciones del mundo real como movimiento, potencia y variación de fabricación. Este papel es ideal para los ingenieros que prosperan en ambiguos entornos tempranos, disfrutan de una profunda propiedad técnica y se enorgullecen de enviar sistemas de imagen de grado de producción. 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 sintonización e integración del ISP desde los primeros prototipos hasta el hardware de producción. Tune core 3A y bloques de calidad de imagen incluidos AE, AWB, AF, reducción de ruido (espacial y temporal), afilado, cartografía de tono, corrección de color, HDR/WDR, mitigación de parpadeos, sombreamiento de lentes, defecto pixel debugging, y etapas relacionadas con ISP. Construye flujos de trabajo de captura y evaluación de imágenes constantes, combinando barridas controladas con validación real. La IA es una herramienta extremadamente poderosa que debe ser creada con seguridad y 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. Se administrarán verificaciones antecedentes para los solicitantes de acuerdo a la ley vigente, y se considerará coherente con esas leyes, incluida la Ordenanza Justa de San Francisco, la Ordenación Justa del Condado de Los Ángeles para Empleadores de Canceles Justos, la Ley de Oportunidades justas para Empregadores, y los candidatos basados en California, Estados Unidos. Para los trabajadores no incorporados del Condado de Los Ángeles: creemos razonablemente que el historial penal puede tener una relación directa, adversa y negativa con las siguientes tareas laborales, lo que podría resultar en la retirada de una oferta condicional de empleo: proteger el hardware informático confiado a usted contra robo, pérdida o daño; devolver todo el hardware computarizado en su posesión (incluyendo los datos contenidos en él) al término del trabajo o final de la asignación; y mantener la confidencialidad de información privada, confidencial y no pública. Para notificar a OpenAI que cree que esta publicación de trabajo es incompatible, envíe un informe a través de este formulario. No se proporcionará respuesta a consultas no relacionadas con la publicación de empleo. Estamos comprometidos a proporcionar adaptaciones razonables a solicitantes con discapacidades, y las solicitudes pueden ser enviadas mediante este enlace.