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Our mission is to give a billion people a direct link between mind and machine - expanding how humans think, communicate, and create.\nWe are building a next-generation AI companion wearable powered by EEG/BCI technology. Our device reads and responds to neural signals in real time, creating a deeply personal experience that adapts to each user. This is not another productivity tool or a gadget - it is a new category of technology built around human potential.\nWe are backed by strong investors, moving fast, and assembling a world-class team to bring this to market. If you thrive at the frontier of what’s possible and want to build something that genuinely changes how people interact with their own minds, we want to talk to you.\nAbout the Role\nYou will own the full camera system of our wearable - from sensor selection and optical design, through image processing and compression, to multi-camera capture, and streaming.\nOur first device carries multiple image sensors arranged around the head to deliver near-360° spatial coverage on a constrained MCU using a multiplexed capture architecture, with a clear path to a more capable image-processing pipeline and higher-end sensors as we scale.\nYou will report to the Head of Hardware, with regular exposure to Sabi’s CEO and CTO, and partner closely with the EE, FW, product design, and reliability leads. You will also work extensively with external engineering teams at our camera module suppliers and contract manufacturers - the work is outsourced; the accountability is yours.\nWhat You’ll Do\nOwn the camera system end-to-end - sensor selection, optical design, capture pipeline, image processing, multi-camera architecture, calibration, image quality.\n\nDrive part selection and benchmarking across the camera system - image sensors, lens stacks, module suppliers - with second-source planning.\n\nDrive the optical design - lens FOV and stack-up, AR coating, hyperfocal tuning, and validation across head pitches and body coupling.\n\nSpecify the electrical and mechanical interfaces cameras need from the rest of the system, and partner with the EE lead on layout, the FW lead on capture drivers, and the product design lead on pod integration.\n\nValidate combined field-of-view, blind spots, and seam overlap, and define the calibration and stitching path for future panoramic and CV use cases.\n\nSet the image-quality bar - exposure, white balance, low-light, dynamic range, motion handling - and the test methodology that holds it as we scale.\n\nPartner with the reliability lead on component-level reliability for the camera system - image sensor lifetime, lens and AR-coating durability, optical-stack robustness.\n\nShip the product by the end of year, and help build and grow the camera team.\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\nMust-Haves\n10+ years of camera engineering, with at least one shipped consumer product (smartphone, wearable, action camera, AR/VR, or comparable) where you owned the camera subsystem.\n\nDeep expertise in image sensor architectures, sensor interfaces (parallel and high-speed serial), and image-processing pipelines.\n\nDemonstrated optical design experience for compact consumer products - lens selection, FOV tuning, optical stack, AR coating.\n\nHands-on experience characterizing and tuning image quality (exposure, white balance, color, low-light, dynamic range) using structured test environments.\n\nDirect experience driving camera component selection and benchmarking with second-source planning.\n\nExperience working with overseas camera module suppliers and driving DfM, calibration, and quality at volume.\n\nNice-to-Haves\nDeploying CV models or vision pipelines on dedicated low-power AI accelerators.\n\nMulti-camera systems - calibration, synchronization, stitching, panoramic, or stereo.\n\nLow-power image sensors for battery-constrained products.\n\nComputer-vision background - VSLAM, scene understanding, on-device inference.\n\nExperience navigating the social and privacy considerations of body-worn cameras.\n\nIf you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every qualification, please apply. As we build, we’re hiring for complementary strengths to form a high-impact team\nCompensation & Benefits\nCompetitive base salary\n\nMeaningful equity package\n\n401(k) with company matching\n\nHealth insurance\n\nFlexible PTO\n\nOur Hiring Timeline\nEvaluation completed within 14 days of first interview\n\nOffer letter dispatched same day as go decision, valid for 10 days\n\nStart date within 4 weeks of offer acceptance\n\nAll candidate queries responded to within 3 hours during business hours\n\nSabi is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome people of all backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. 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