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Operating Systems Engineer | Consumer Devices

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Frontier labonsite$230k–$342k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build OS foundations that bring AI into the physical world at scale.
  • Own end-to-end systems from development through to production.
  • Harden devices for security, privacy, performance and reliability.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

An experienced systems builder who thrives on foundational platform work and deep debugging, comfortable owning across boundaries and balancing security, performance and velocity with partner teams.

Requirements

  • Strong experience with systems programming including meaningful kernel work
  • Professional proficiency in C, C++ for low-level systems development
  • Experience building or maintaining core OS services and platform software
  • Track record debugging complex issues across kernel/userspace boundaries
  • Familiarity with security fundamentals in OS design

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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