Sabi
Lead Camera Engineer
$300K–$400K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted May 7, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years; at least one shipped consumer product where the candidate owned the camera subsystem.
About the job
Own the end-to-end camera system for a wearable, from sensor and optical design through image processing, multi-camera capture, calibration, and streaming.
What you'll do
- Select and benchmark camera components and suppliers, including second-source planning.
- Define and validate optical design, image quality, camera interfaces, and multi-camera coverage.
- Partner with engineering, reliability, suppliers, and manufacturers to deliver the camera system and help grow the camera team.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of camera engineering and ownership of the camera subsystem in at least one shipped consumer product.
- Expertise in image sensor architectures, sensor interfaces, and image-processing pipelines.
- Compact consumer-product optical design experience and hands-on image-quality characterization and tuning.
- Experience selecting and benchmarking camera components and working with overseas suppliers on DfM, calibration, and quality at volume.
Nice to have
- Deploying CV models or vision pipelines on dedicated low-power AI accelerators.
- Multi-camera systems, low-power image sensors, computer vision, or body-worn camera privacy considerations.
Pay
$300K – $400K USD base salary
Tools
image sensors, parallel, high-speed serial, AR coating, CV, VSLAM
AI focus
The role may involve deploying CV models or vision pipelines on dedicated low-power AI accelerators; future panoramic and computer-vision use cases are mentioned.
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