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Firmware Engineer, Robotics

OpenAI · San Francisco

Frontier labonsitesenior$380k–$445k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Define embedded architecture for next-generation general-purpose robots.
  • Own real-time execution, bring-up, fault handling and safety mechanisms.
  • Build robots supporting skilled workers building future infrastructure.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

A hands-on technical leader who loves bringing new hardware to life and balancing speed with rigor. You care deeply about safety, reliability and diagnosability, and thrive turning ambiguity into trustworthy systems.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience developing firmware in an iterative environment
  • Experience bringing up new hardware with end-to-end ownership
  • Led architecture and delivery for complex embedded products in production environments
  • Fluency in low-level languages and working close to hardware under real-time constraints
  • First-principles understanding of interrupts, scheduling, memory layout, buses, DMA and timing
  • Strong instincts for defensive design, fault containment, validation and diagnosability
  • Ability to balance durable systems with fast prototypes that unlock decisions
  • Clear cross-disciplinary communication turning ambiguity into technical direction

Lab profile

About OpenAI

Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.

What they build

  • ChatGPT
  • OpenAI API
  • Frontier AI models

Known for

  • Frontier-scale distributed ML training
  • Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
  • Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
  • AI alignment and safety research

Key facts

  • Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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