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Operating Systems Engineer, On-Device Inference | Consumer Devices

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Frontier labonsite$230k–$385k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Design the OS stack that makes advanced AI reliable on consumer devices.
  • Build inference services, scheduling and power management for devices.
  • Bring novel AI capabilities from research exploration to shipped products.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Systems-minded engineer who loves working across hardware, software and research to ship real products. You take end-to-end ownership, thrive on zero-to-one challenges, and care about making AI useful and reliable in everyday life.

Requirements

  • Substantial hands-on experience designing, developing, and debugging operating system components, system services, or performance-critical platform software.
  • Proficiency in C++ for systems development, including concurrent programming, memory ownership, and resource lifetime management.
  • Hands-on experience integrating or optimizing inference runtimes or machine learning workloads in resource-constrained environments.
  • Strong understanding of scheduling, memory management, and how workloads compete for shared system resources.
  • Experience diagnosing complex system behavior and delivering performance or power improvements supported by repeatable measurements.
  • Ability to work across disciplines, translate research and product needs into system requirements, and explain technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly.

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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