Operating Systems Engineer, Connectivity & Networking | Consumer Devices

Highlights

• Design OS connectivity foundations for next-gen AI consumer devices.
• Build secure, efficient communication across OpenAI products and systems.
• Validate real-world reliability with diagnostic tools and automated tests.

What they offer

• Equity

Ideal candidate

A systems-minded engineer who loves owning connectivity end-to-end, from investigation to shipped product. You thrive debugging across stacks and partnering with hardware and platform teams to build reliable, secure consumer devices.

Requirements

• Substantial hands-on experience developing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth functionality in operating-system frameworks, system services, or connectivity middleware.
• Strong understanding of IP networking, including IPv4/IPv6, TCP/UDP, DNS, DHCP, routing, and socket behavior, with practical experience implementing and debugging networked systems.
• Experience implementing advanced networking capabilities in one or more areas such as routing and network policy, VPNs and tunneling, traffic management, or network isolation.
• Experience designing and maintaining platform APIs and the services behind them, including connection lifecycle management and integration with other OS components.
• Proficiency in C++ for systems development, including concurrent programming, memory ownership, and resource lifetime management.
• Strong understanding of asynchronous systems, interprocess communication, and failure handling.
• Experience diagnosing complex connectivity issues using system traces, protocol captures, logs, and structured debugging.
• Ability to work across disciplines, make sound technical tradeoffs, and carry solutions from investigation through implementation and validation.