Firmware Engineer, RTOS, Consumer Devices
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 27M AGO
Frontier labremotesenior$347k–$385k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build reliable, high-performance firmware for custom consumer hardware.
- Own low-level bring-up and optimize for memory, power and latency.
- Take embedded platforms from early prototype through production launch.
What they offer
- Relocation assistance
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A veteran embedded builder who thrives on board bring-up and squeezing performance from constrained hardware, partnering closely with hardware teams to ship reliable consumer devices.
Requirements
- 10+ years shipping embedded systems
- Proficient in C and C++
- Familiar with embedded toolchains, operating systems and debugging tools
- Experience with rapid prototyping and scalable product development
- Experience with Zephyr RTOS (nice to have)
- Experience with networking/wireless stacks like BLE and Wi-Fi (nice to have)
- Experience with Linux kernel development (nice to have)
- remote policy
- Hybrid, 4 days in office per week
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