Lead Camera Systems Engineer — Wearable Vision & AI, Equity

Sabi; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Meaningful equity package

401(k) with company matching

Health insurance

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Sabi, a startup building a wearable brain-computer interface, seeks an experienced camera engineer to own the full camera system—from sensor selection and optical design to capture pipeline and streaming.

You will work with the EE, FW, product design, and reliability leads and coordinate with external camera suppliers to scale quality. The role culminates in shipping the product by year-end and growing the camera team.

Qualifications

• Must have 10+ years of camera engineering with at least one shipped consumer product.
• Deep expertise in image sensor architectures and image-processing pipelines.
• Demonstrated optical design experience for compact consumer products.
• Hands-on experience tuning image quality (exposure, white balance, low-light, dynamic range).
• Experience driving camera component selection and benchmarking with second-source planning.
• Experience with overseas camera module suppliers and driving DfM, calibration and volume quality.

Responsibilities

• Own the camera system end-to-end: sensor selection, optical design, capture pipeline, image processing, multi-camera architecture, calibration, image quality.
• Drive part selection and benchmarking across camera system: image sensors, lens stacks, module suppliers, second-source planning.
• Drive the optical design: lens FOV and stack-up, AR coating, hyperfocal tuning, validation across head pitches and body coupling.
• Specify electrical and mechanical interfaces for cameras, partnering with EE, FW, and product design leads.
• Validate field-of-view, blind spots, seam overlap; define calibration and stitching for future panoramas.
• Set the image-quality bar: exposure, white balance, low-light, dynamic range, motion handling, and testing methods.
• Partner with reliability leads on component-level camera reliability: sensor lifetime, lens durability, optical-stack robustness.
• Ship the product by year-end and help build the camera team.

Skills

Camera system ownership

Image sensor architectures

Optical design

Image quality tuning

Second-source planning

Job description

Sabi, a startup building a wearable brain-computer interface, seeks an experienced camera engineer to own the full camera system—from sensor selection and optical design to capture pipeline and streaming.

You will work with the EE, FW, product design, and reliability leads and coordinate with external camera suppliers to scale quality. The role culminates in shipping the product by year-end and growing the camera team.