Firmware Engineer, Robotics
OpenAI · San Francisco
Frontier labonsitesenior$380k–$445k
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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