# Camera Systems Software Engineer at Skild AI

- Company: Skild AI
- What the company does: Building general purpose robotic intelligence. Backed by General Catalyst, Lightspeed and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.skild.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Mateo, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-05-29
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/skildai-careers/jobs/5235631008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/skild-ai-camera-systems-software-engineer/

## About the role

At Skild AI, we are building the world's first general purpose robotic intelligence that is robust and adapts to unseen scenarios without failing. We believe massive scale through data-driven machine learning is the key to unlocking these capabilities for the widespread deployment of robots within society. Our team consists of individuals with varying levels of experience and backgrounds, from new graduates to domain experts.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related technical field
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with embedded camera systems, including sensor bring-up, camera module integration, driver-level debugging, and board-level validation
- Strong proficiency in C/C++ for Linux or performance-sensitive systems, including multithreading, memory management, profiling, and low-latency software design
- Experience with camera interfaces and supporting hardware, such as MIPI CSI-2, I2C, GMSL, FPD-Link, serializers/deserializers, power sequencing, reset sequencing, clocks, and sensor mode tables
- Experience developing or modifying Linux camera drivers, device trees, V4L2 drivers, media controller graphs, or similar low-level camera integration components
- Experience with multi-camera synchronization, hardware triggering, PTP, PPS, camera-IMU synchronization, or other precise timing systems

Tags: Engineering