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Release Engineer | Consumer Devices

OpenAI · San Francisco

CHECKED 35M AGO

Frontier labonsite$207k–$365k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build release infrastructure for reliable software delivery at scale.
  • Design A/B OTA update flows with staged rollouts and safe rollback.
  • Ensure bootloaders, firmware, OS and cloud ship together seamlessly.

What they offer

  • Relocation assistance
  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Engineer who takes pride in automation, reproducibility and reliability and loves connecting hardware and software. Background in shipping consumer devices or robotics with a metrics-driven mindset for continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • Experience building and operating build and release systems for consumer devices, robotics, mobile, or embedded products
  • Proficiency in scripting and automation with Python or Bash
  • Strong Linux user-space fundamentals
  • Experience with GitHub Actions or Buildkite, artifact registries, and reproducible toolchains
  • Experience managing vendor BSPs and toolchains
  • Experience delivering secure OTA or image updates with staged rollouts at scale
  • Familiarity with key management and supply-chain hardening
  • Track record of metrics-driven improvement and continuous optimization
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
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