Operating Systems Engineer | Consumer Devices
OpenAI · Consumer Devices
- Location
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Metro
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Workplace
- Unspecified
- Level
- Unspecified
- Type
- Full-time
- Pay
- $230K–$342K/yr (published by employer)
- Posted
- 2 months ago
- Source
- Ashby
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What the posting covers
About the Team
The Consumer Devices team at OpenAI builds end-to-end hardware and software systems that bring AI into the physical world. We work at the intersection of custom silicon, embedded systems, operating systems, and cloud services to deliver reliable,…
About the role
We are looking for an Operating Systems Engineer to build and harden the OS foundations for OpenAI products. We are especially interested in experienced, passionate, and innovative operating systems developers who thrive on building foundational platform…
What you will do
Work on end-to-end OS capabilities spanning the OS kernel, userspace services, application frameworks, UI toolkits, and application-facing APIs. Develop, integrate, and maintain OS components, both kernel-bound and in userspace, including scheduling, memory…
What you will do
Contribute to reliability and release readiness: Production hardening, incident response participation, and cross-team debugging. Test strategy across unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop environments; improve coverage and reduce flakiness.
Required qualifications
Strong experience with systems programming (such as with Linux, BSD, etc), including meaningful work in the kernel (drivers, core subsystems, or platform enablement) and operating systems. Professional proficiency in C, C++ for low-level systems development.…
Strongly preferred
Production experience with Rust in systems contexts (kernel-adjacent tooling, userspace services, security-sensitive components, or performance-critical libraries). Experience with OS security hardening: SELinux/AppArmor policy, sandboxing, seccomp,…
Nice to have
Hardware bring-up exposure (bootloader/early boot debugging, device tree/ACPI, board revisions, peripheral enablement), even if not your primary background. Experience with OTA/update systems, partitioning strategies, rollback/health checks, and update…
What success looks like
The OS is secure by default, privacy-preserving, and designed for least privilege. Performance and power characteristics are measurable, repeatable, and continuously improved with low regression rates. Debugging is fast: tracing, logs, crash artifacts, and…
Working style
You take ownership across boundaries: kernel, services, tooling, and the interfaces that applications rely on. You are comfortable making careful tradeoffs between security, privacy, performance, power, and developer velocity. You communicate clearly with…
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…
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